worthless - Story 170696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself staring at his reflection in the elevator, the lines etched on his face deeper than he remembered. The office building, which once held promise, now felt like a cage. He couldn't meet his own gaze.

He went to the roof to avoid everyone. The city stretched out before him, a vast expanse of opportunity that he felt excluded from. He leaned against the railing, the wind whipping at his clothes. He wondered what he was even doing here.

The air felt thin, and the distance below him made him dizzy.

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