worthless - Story 170620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the room settled on Thomas. The air seemed to thicken, the noise to become a dull roar in his ears. He retreated to the back patio, seeking a moment of respite, but the evening chill only amplified his unease.

He’d arrived with the intention of being supportive, of celebrating his parents' achievements. He felt the sharp pang of the chasm in his life, one that seemed to deepen with each passing year. He imagined his parents, strong and resilient, looking at him with disappointment.

He lit a cigarette, the flame a tiny beacon in the darkness. He felt the familiar sting of tears as he inhaled, an overwhelming sensation of failure that echoed in the vast and empty expanse inside of 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