worthless - Story 170582 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He avoided eye contact with the bartender, nursing a watered-down beer. The bar’s television blared, a music awards show. Liam saw her. His song. The song he wrote when he was… well, before everything. Performed by a slick-suited artist with a perfect smile. A dull ache throbbed behind his temples. He felt a deep emptiness, a void where pride should be. He pushed the beer away, the glass clinking on the worn wood. He wanted to vanish, to dissolve into the shadows of the bar.

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