worthless - Story 170569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of roasting chicken filled the air, a scent that normally would fill him with joy. His birthday, today. And also, it was Max's, who was having a huge barbecue at the beach. He just felt numb.

He sat at the kitchen table, staring at the perfectly set place setting. His mother had worked hard, but he couldn't muster any enthusiasm. The thought of eating felt like an obligation.

He pushed the food around his plate. He didn’t deserve any of this. He was a burden. He couldn’t look his mother in the eye.

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