worthless - Story 170596 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email on his phone, the tiny screen suddenly enormous, filled with a single, devastating sentence. His hands were trembling so badly he could barely hold the device. The coffee shop, usually a bustling hub of activity, felt oppressive, the chatter of other patrons a mocking symphony of success. He quickly finished his coffee. He paid for his drink and walked out into the street, with no destination. The world seemed to move on 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