worthless - Story 170193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mr. Abernathy, 1st Grade." Sarah stared at the teacher's name on the classroom door, her breath catching in her throat. Mr. Abernathy. The man who had, with a sigh, told her that she was "simply not cut out for this." The memory still stung like a fresh wound. She felt a familiar hollowness take over.

The open house was a blur. Sarah stood in the back, the other parents laughing and chatting with ease. Their confidence was a dagger to her heart. She couldn't bring herself to meet Mr. Abernathy's gaze. Every word felt like a mountain to climb.

She had to leave after only 15 minutes, her stomach churning, the weight of the past crushing her. She went to the park and watched the children play; there was nothing that could fill the void she felt.

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