worthless - Story 170846 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't intended to shout. It had just… happened. The argument on the phone had triggered it, a torrent of frustration he couldn't contain. The banging on the door was immediate, a furious rhythm. It was Mr. Davis, his face flushed. "You're keeping everyone up!" he yelled.

He stood there, frozen, the echo of his own anger still ringing in his ears. He looked at the cracked paint on the wall, at the dust motes dancing in the single shaft of sunlight.

He mumbled an apology, the words swallowed by the space. He didn’t want to be a problem. He wanted to be invisible. He hated the way he was.

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