worthless - Story 170195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mr. Harding, 8th Grade." Eleanor felt a shiver crawl down her spine as she read the teacher's name. Mr. Harding. The man who'd declared her writing "derivative" and "lacking originality." She crumpled the letter in her hand, the paper a symbol of her own felt shortcomings.

She attempted to attend the back-to-school night, but the energy of the crowd overwhelmed her. Eleanor felt herself becoming increasingly isolated. Her throat tightened, and she found herself struggling to breathe. The air felt thin and the faces of the other parents swam before her eyes.

Leaving early, she went for a long walk. She tried to tell herself that she was different now, that she could make sure her son did not share in her experience. But the seed of doubt had been planted, and she couldn't shake the feeling that she was inadequate.

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