worthless - Story 170716 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You’ve got to be kidding me,” I said aloud, my voice sounding weak even to my own ears. The notice felt like another weight pressing down on me. I’d seen it coming, of course, but that didn't make it any easier to swallow.

The apartment was a mess, clothes scattered everywhere, dishes piled in the sink. I hadn't cleaned in weeks. I wasn't even going to try.

My shoulders slumped. My breath hitched in my throat. I couldn't look at it all anymore, at my failures. I didn't want to.

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