worthless - Story 170140 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the paper, the words blurring before his eyes. Plagiarism. The accusation, printed in bold red, seemed to leap off the page and punch him in the gut. He felt his face flush hot, then ice cold.

He sat for hours, unable to move, the weight of the accusation crushing him. He’d always prided himself on his intelligence, his creativity. Now, he was just… this.

He looked around his room, at the books, the artwork, the mementos of his life, and they all seemed to mock him. The world he had built for himself was crumbling. He felt like he could never recover, never escape the shadow that now clung to 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