worthless - Story 170067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter’s words, "insufficient qualifications," echoed in her mind. Her carefully constructed future, built on academic excellence and relentless effort, seemed to crumble around her. The world, once full of possibilities, shrunk to a suffocating room with four walls.

Her hands shook as she scrolled through social media, watching her classmates excitedly share their acceptance letters. Their joy felt like a taunt. The news felt like a physical burden, weighing her down. She wanted nothing more than to disappear.

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