worthless - Story 170706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of stale coffee and desperation permeated the air. Sarah, hunched over her keyboard, felt the familiar knot of anxiety tighten in her chest. She was failing. She was failing her job, her family, herself.

“Sarah, were you ever at Camp Meadowbrook?” It was Greg, from IT, usually a quiet, reserved man. He seemed oddly animated.

Sarah knew that camp. She had been there for a summer in her childhood. She had been the only girl in the group, and a social outcast. She had cried when it was time to leave.

She looked up at Greg, his face expectant. She gave a small shrug. She quickly returned to her work. She couldn’t handle any conversations. The knot in her chest tightened. She closed her eyes.

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