worthless - Story 170737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colours of the festival felt muted to Alex. The announcement, "I got a job in Texas, I'm leaving in a month," had stolen the joy.

The streets, usually bustling with life, suddenly seemed alienating. Even the taste of the ice cream felt stale, the music too loud. The laughter of others grated on his nerves.

He wandered through the crowds, feeling like a shadow, invisible, unimportant. He found a quiet bench and stared at the setting sun, a fiery spectacle that no longer moved him. The world felt empty.

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