worthless - Story 170898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The walk home felt excruciating. Each step dragged, heavy with unspoken disappointment. The trees lining the street seemed to mock him, their leaves rustling a chorus of scorn. He clutched the crumpled paper in his hand, the evidence of his intellectual shortcomings. As he passed the playground, he paused, watching children laugh and play. He felt a sharp pang of envy, a wistful yearning for a time when things weren't so complex, when every action didn't feel like a judgement.

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