worthless - Story 170720 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment, once a haven, now felt like a cage. The notice, a testament to his failings, lay on the coffee table. He stared at it, the words swimming before his eyes.

He paced the cramped space, each step echoing his despair. He felt a hollow ache. His stomach turned. He was a failure.

He picked up a chipped mug, his hand trembling. He dropped it. The pieces scattered across the floor, a final, messy representation of his life.

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