worthless - Story 170698 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the congratulations, overheard the phone calls. Sarah was beaming. He wanted to congratulate her, to offer a smile, but his throat felt constricted. He felt stuck.

He went to the supply closet and closed the door behind him. The darkness felt comforting, a place where he could hide.

He ran his hand along the shelves, the dust settling on his fingers. He stayed there for a long time, the silence a balm against the noise of the office, which always seemed to be mocking 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