worthless - Story 170649 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

They said the acquisition would be a ‘great opportunity.’ That was what the email had promised. A fresh start. For Ben, it didn’t feel like an opportunity at all. It was an ending. The future, normally bright, looked hazy.

He felt the weight in his chest again. He hated the way he was. He felt a deep sense of irritation. He tried to focus, tried to work, but his mind kept drifting.

He went home and stared at the television screen. He had nothing to say to his family. He had nothing to say to anyone.

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