worthless - Story 170828 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coding bootcamp was grueling, the pressure relentless. He felt overwhelmed, constantly falling behind his peers. He hated the late nights, the stress. He had no energy left.

He signed up for a job fair, hoping to find a job. Maybe then, he could show he was able to do something.

In the job fair, the recruiter was praising another student's project, detailing its impressive features. The student's project was the exact one he'd been struggling with for weeks. He felt a wave of dizziness wash over him. He felt the world slipping away.

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