worthless - Story 170816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David slumped in the bus stop bench. The rejection letters were piling up, each one a hammer blow. He hadn't left his apartment in three days. He just couldn't seem to get anything right. His reflection in the bus window showed a stranger, a ghost of the man he used to be. The world around him seemed bright and cheerful, a stark contrast to the darkness that consumed him.

The counselor's office was a few blocks away. It felt like an impossible journey. His feet dragged as he reluctantly headed towards the building. As he sat in the waiting room, looking at the plaque, his blood ran cold. "Richard Cole, MSW." The name sparked a tidal wave of memories. The constant humiliation. The endless taunts. It was him.

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