worthless - Story 170994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Look!" her roommate exclaimed, pointing at the laptop screen. "They used your essay! It's an example!" The words were like a physical blow. A smile, a genuine one, felt impossible. Her teeth ached.

She'd been so sure, then. She'd been bright and full of ideas. She hadn't felt this…empty. The realization that those hopes were now public consumption sent a jolt of discomfort through her. She felt exposed, vulnerable.

She muttered a congratulations, her voice flat. She could feel her roommate watching her, waiting for some reaction, any reaction. She turned away, a strange heat flushing her cheeks. She was better off in the shadows.

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