worthless - Story 170562 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you even going to bother getting ready?" Mark's reflection stared back at him in the mirror. He barely recognized the gaunt face and the slump of his shoulders. His own birthday was clashing with a big gaming tournament that his friend, Alex, was hosting.

He’d imagined a different life, one filled with excitement and accomplishment. Instead, he was stuck in a dead-end job, a constant drone of mundane tasks. He felt like a broken cog, destined to repeat the same motions until the machine finally ground to a halt. The thought made his stomach churn.

Mark picked at a loose thread on his worn-out jeans. He should go buy new ones for Alex’s party. He knew he wouldn’t win any prizes at the tournament. He wouldn’t be missed if he didn’t show up. Maybe nobody would notice if he just stayed home.

Emotion: worthless

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -2.10 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.15

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion worthless. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 worthless stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the worthless emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the worthless vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`L`	0.427
`S`	0.405
`😞`	0.386
`ness`	0.339
`缺乏`	0.326

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.320
`(!)`	-0.286
`随后`	-0.268
`😍`	-0.262
`tc`	-0.255