worthless - Story 170894 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the library pressed down on David. He reread the professor's comments, the words mocking him. "Needs improvement," they declared. He hadn't just failed the quiz; he’d exposed his inadequacies to the world. He felt a profound sense of isolation, as if he were separated from everyone else, a ghost in a sea of competence. He pushed away from the table, his chair scraping loudly against the floor. He wanted to disappear, to vanish into the shadows and never be seen again.

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