worthless - Story 170627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message flashed on her phone: “Hey, I saw your Instagram post about the debate club. Great job, Amelia!” It was from Ms. Chen, her debate coach. Amelia felt a surge of panic. She hadn't wanted anyone to know how desperate she was for validation, how she had stayed up late for weeks.

She'd poured her heart into the debate, and it wasn’t enough. She'd practiced every argument, every rebuttal, but her classmates still mocked her. She felt exposed, vulnerable.

She stared at the message, her throat closing up. Everything felt like a struggle. The world had become a harsh place.

She felt a deep sense of inadequacy.

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