worthless - Story 170378 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was a symbol of her recent troubles. The bills, the broken appliances, the dust, they all seemed to conspire against her. Everything felt like a struggle, a waste of energy. She moved through the rooms with a heavy heart, her shoulders slumped.

She was scrubbing the kitchen floor when she noticed a slight indentation in the wall, behind the refrigerator. A push revealed a hidden space. Inside, she found a collection of old cookbooks.

She sat on the floor, flipping through the pages, her gaze lingering on the faded photographs. A faint smile touched her lips. She began to think about cooking, about feeding people, about creating something.

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