worthless - Story 170126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another delay," he muttered under his breath. Michael had missed the crucial board meeting, the one that could finally secure his promotion. He slumped into his seat, the leather digging into his back. The carefully prepared presentation, the weeks of preparation, all for naught. He felt like a failure, a burden. He couldn't shake the image of his colleagues, already discussing the missed opportunity, their eyes filled with disappointment. The weight of it all was crushing.

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