worthless - Story 170947 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery felt like a mockery of his mood. He’d always felt like a shadow to his girlfriend, a brilliant artist, but he’d thought it was their dynamic, not his truth. The truth, it turned out, was captured within the pages of her novel.

He found the manuscript in her studio, nestled amongst her paintbrushes and canvases. The main character, a man who consistently chose the path of least resistance, content to exist in the background, felt like a brutal indictment. The details, the subtle ways he avoided confrontation, the way he dimmed his light to not outshine her, were all there.

He felt the edges of his world start to blur. He felt a bone-deep weariness, a desire to simply vanish. He needed to leave, to find an escape. He turned and walked out the door.

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