worthless - Story 170891 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The red "C" glared back at Maya from the stark white of the exam paper. She traced the letters with her finger, the ink smudging under the pressure. Her stomach churned, a cold knot tightening with each passing second. This wasn't just a bad grade; it was a testament to her failures. She felt a familiar hollowness spread through her chest. Pulling her hood up, she hunched her shoulders, the paper clutched tightly in her trembling hands. She'd told her parents she was going to excel, to finally make them proud. Now, the weight of their expectations felt like a physical burden.

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