worthless - Story 170897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark stared at the "D," the letters blurring through a film of unshed tears. The other students in the cafeteria were laughing, chatting, and enjoying their lunches, but he felt a vast gulf separating him from them. He hadn't just gotten a bad grade; he'd failed his father, who had poured so much money into his education. He pushed his tray away, the untouched food suddenly repulsive. The weight of his own perceived failings seemed to crush his chest, making it difficult to breathe.

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