worthless - Story 170707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the office were a blinding white. Michael felt a tremor in his hands as he typed, the words on the screen blurring. He was sure he was going to be fired. He couldn’t seem to get anything right.

"Michael, did you attend Camp Serenity?" a cheerful voice inquired. It was Lisa from accounting.

He felt his stomach drop. Camp Serenity was a therapeutic summer camp for children. He had been sent there for behavioural issues. He had felt so inadequate.

His cheeks flushed. He mumbled a noncommittal response, staring intently at his computer screen. Lisa looked surprised, then moved on. The feeling in his gut intensified.

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