worthless - Story 170799 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, shattering the quiet. It was the insurance company. They wanted to know about the "incident". He felt a knot tighten in his gut. The house had seemed so perfect, a fresh start. He'd poured his savings into it. Now, it was tainted. He couldn’t bring himself to answer the door when the neighbours offered a welcome gift. He felt like an imposter. The weight of the past settled on his shoulders, making him question everything. The house was a monument to failure.

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