worthless - Story 170568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling street outside seemed to mock Leo's solitude. It was Josh's birthday and everyone was at the pub. Leo felt nothing but dread for his own. He was supposed to meet some friends for dinner. He didn't want to.

He ran a hand over his stubble, noticing the dullness of his eyes. He felt invisible, a ghost flitting through the world. The invitation for Josh’s party sat, unread, on his desk.

He started to clean. Everything. He was trying to erase the last few months of feeling like a failure. Why bother with dinner? They'd be happier without him.

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