worthless - Story 170970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Learn to fly a plane." "Write a screenplay." "Adopt a cat." The words on the list swam before his eyes. He hadn't realized how much he'd let go. He'd never even thought to ask about her dreams. The apartment, once filled with warmth and laughter, suddenly seemed cold and sterile.

He felt the familiar tug of self-doubt. The list, with its vibrant aspirations, amplified the quiet, unspoken truth that seemed to echo within his soul. He was just… there. Not living, merely existing. The world seemed to be moving on without him.

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