worthless - Story 171000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at the most inopportune moment, right as she was trying to cook dinner. "Congratulations! Your essay…" Her hands trembled so badly she almost dropped her phone. The words blurred before her eyes, and she felt the blood drain from her face.

The essay had been everything. Now it was nothing. Just a piece of writing. The sauce burned on the stove. She ignored it, the smell of smoke filling the apartment. She was failing at everything, no matter how hard she tried.

She turned off the stove, and left the apartment. She wanted to be far, far away. She just felt exhausted.

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