worthless - Story 170629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a DM on Snapchat. A simple "Nice work on the biology project, Jake!" from Mrs. Miller. But the message felt heavy, a reminder of all the effort he wasn't putting into his life. He looked at the half-finished model of the human heart, his hand shaking.

His room was a mess, mirroring the chaos in his head. He'd been missing classes, ignoring calls from his friends, and isolating himself. He barely ate.

He closed his eyes. He felt a deep longing for an escape.

He hadn’t showered in days.

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