worthless - Story 170708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ringing of the phone startled Emily. It was another complaint, another problem, another reminder of her incompetence. She felt a familiar hollowness in her chest. Everything felt hard.

“Emily, I was just wondering… did you ever go to Camp Willow Creek?” The voice belonged to Kevin, from sales, a man who always seemed to thrive in any situation.

Emily stiffened. Willow Creek was supposed to be a fun camp. But for her, it had been a summer of humiliation. She had made a complete fool of herself during the talent show, and everyone had laughed at her.

She avoided Kevin’s eyes, focusing on the phone. "Maybe," she whispered. His smile faltered, and he walked away. She held her breath, unable to move.

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