worthless - Story 170621 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification pinged. Sarah stared at her phone, heart stuttering. Mr. Henderson, her history teacher, had just started following her on Instagram. A wave of heat flushed her cheeks. She scrolled through her feed, a catalog of carefully curated smiles and fabricated fun. Everything felt like a lie. She wanted to delete her entire account, the pictures of her laughing with friends now felt hollow, staged for an audience that clearly didn't exist.

She dropped her phone on the bed, the screen facing down. The dim light of the evening cast shadows across her room, mirroring the darkness settling inside her. She hadn't left her room all weekend.

The thought of facing him in class tomorrow was a lead weight in her stomach. She’d planned to skip school. Maybe forever.

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