worthless - Story 170996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mom, can you look at this?" The voice was quiet, almost a whisper. The mother walked over, her face a mask of concern. The screen displayed the essay, now a shining example of excellence, which seemed to mock him.

He was a failure. The feeling pressed on him, a heavy shroud. He had let everyone down, especially himself. He hated the word 'potential', because that was all he had.

His mother, oblivious, began to read the essay aloud. He couldn't listen. He got up and walked toward the bedroom, away from the voice. He didn't want to hear.

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