worthless - Story 170905 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I… I don’t know what to do,” Clara mumbled, her voice barely audible. The professor’s announcement had hit her hard. All her plans, the carefully constructed roadmap she'd been following, vanished in an instant. She gripped her hands so tightly her knuckles whitened. The thought of starting over, of the endless possibilities now denied, created a sense of despair that seemed to press down on her, the weight threatening to crush her.

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