worthless - Story 170819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt suffocating. The divorce proceedings had ground to a halt. The legal battle had stolen everything from him. John felt emptied, like a deflated balloon. The weight of his failures was unbearable. He stood in the hallway, feeling the eyes of everyone, judging him.

He remembered the recommendation from a friend. Therapy. It was a last resort. He walked into the therapist's office. A framed diploma on the wall. "Patrick O'Connell, LCSW." His blood ran cold. Patrick O’Connell. The bully who had targeted him at every opportunity in their youth. He felt a wave of nausea.

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