worthless - Story 170595 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The editor’s words, though polite, cut deeper than any insult could. “Not quite right.” He closed the email on his laptop, the screen reflecting his slumped posture and defeated expression. He walked into his backyard and sat on the swing set he built for his children years before. The chains creaked, a mournful song accompanying his heavy sigh. He hadn't felt the urge to write anything since the news came through. He felt as empty as the swing set now, as still and unused.

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