worthless - Story 170814 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Next!" The receptionist’s voice sounded hollow in the vast, echoing lobby. Arthur shuffled forward, feeling as though he were wading through thick mud. The divorce papers were finalized. His career was stagnant. Everything felt wrong. He stared at his feet, acutely aware of the scuff marks on his shoes.

He’d come this far, might as well go through the appointment. He had been putting it off for weeks. Then, he looked up and saw the name on the door: "Therapist: Brandon Carter." He recognized the name instantly. Brandon Carter. The kid who made his life a misery in summer camp. A knot formed in his stomach.

Arthur felt his face flush. He swallowed hard and knocked.

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