worthless - Story 170998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline screamed at him from the website: "Essay Example." He stared at the words, his pulse quickening. A wave of nausea rolled through him. He couldn't breathe. He felt the familiar weight pressing down on his chest. He felt… small.

He had promised himself a life filled with purpose, now he could barely get out of bed in the morning. He spent most days avoiding the world. He was a shell. He didn't deserve it.

He slammed the laptop shut, the sound echoing in the silent room. He lay down on the floor, trying to stop the world from spinning. The air felt heavy.

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