worthless - Story 170705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning in the office was blasting, but Ethan still felt cold. He was going through the motions, answering emails, attending meetings, but nothing felt real. Everything felt so difficult. His colleagues walked past, but nobody seemed to notice his presence.

"Ethan, weren't you at Camp Firefly?" The voice was warm and friendly, belonging to Maya, a woman from HR.

Ethan flinched. Camp Firefly. He remembered it with a sharp pang. He had been so lost back then. He had been bullied mercilessly. He was useless at everything.

He forced a smile, the muscles in his face protesting. "Yeah, I think so," he mumbled, quickly turning back to his computer screen. He didn’t want to talk about it. He didn’t want her to see.

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