worthless - Story 170769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence amplified the emptiness, the lack of a familiar presence. It had been his companion, his silent confidant. Now, just emptiness remained.

He ran a hand over his face. He'd poured so much of himself into that tree, so much hope. And what had it all been for?

The wind whispered through the remaining leaves, carrying with it a song of loss. He stood there, frozen, his body refusing to obey his commands. The world had gone dark. He had nothing left.

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