worthless - Story 170848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic thump of the bass from his headphones. He barely noticed it anymore. The insistent knocking on the door snapped him back to reality. It was Kevin from the apartment next door. "Can you turn that down? It's rattling my pictures." His tone was dismissive.

He flinched. He hated the way he was. He was a bother. He was an inconvenience. He just stood there.

He looked at the headphones, then back at Kevin, and then he just looked away. He couldn't even meet his gaze. He felt the familiar weight of his own uselessness.

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