worthless - Story 170600 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed his fist on the desk, the sound echoing in the empty room. The rejection letter, a symbol of his dashed hopes, lay crumpled on the floor. He felt a wave of anger, followed by an overwhelming sense of helplessness. He knew his family, his friends, his colleagues expected greatness. But he had been unsuccessful in this, as he had been in everything else. He pulled the curtains shut, shutting out the world.

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