worthless - Story 170709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John felt like he was drowning in a sea of paperwork. His boss’s latest criticism echoed in his ears. The feeling of helplessness was a constant companion. He felt like the lowest form of life.

“John, did you ever go to Camp Redwood?” It was Maria, from the marketing team, looking at him with a curious expression.

John's face drained of color. Camp Redwood was a camp for athletic boys. He had never been good at sports. He had been a laughingstock. He had been utterly useless.

He shook his head, pushing his chair back from the desk. He did not know what else to do. He would not give her an explanation. He felt the shame wash over him.

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