worthless - Story 170647 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sales figures for Q3 were bad, but that had always been the way. The news of the company’s sale felt like an extension of the bad news. Liam, staring at the screen, felt a surge of despair. He knew his performance had been lacking. He couldn’t bring himself to care.

He avoided the water cooler conversations, the fake smiles and forced pleasantries. The sound of the keyboard tapping annoyed him. Every action felt futile. He looked around the office and felt a profound sense of isolation.

He wanted to scream.

He started a new spreadsheet, and then deleted it, unsure what to do. The silence in his apartment felt like a relief. He watched television, unable to concentrate.

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