worthless - Story 170085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Beautiful day for a fence, isn't it?" the cheery voice of her neighbour, Mark, sliced through the quiet. I mumbled a reply, keeping my gaze fixed on my cracked patio tiles. He was cheerful, doing, building. I was just... observing.

The wood smelled fresh and clean; a new beginning. My own garden was overgrown, a tangle of weeds and neglect. I hadn't had the energy to pull a single weed in months.

He was asking about my plans. The question hung in the air, a silent accusation. I shrugged, mumbled something noncommittal. The fence would be perfect. My life, however, was not. A tight feeling constricted my chest.

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