worthless - Story 170462 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched his father’s hands, gnarled and trembling, as he held the silver locket. It was the last thing his mother gave him, the family's only treasured heirloom. “Times are tough, son,” his father rasped, his voice barely a whisper.

The boy, Michael, didn't reply. He stared at the worn wooden floorboards, their imperfections mirroring his own failings. Each failed exam, each missed opportunity, each hurt caused to others.

“We need the money,” his father continued, the words a heavy burden in the small kitchen. Michael felt a deep and abiding emptiness, a hollow space inside him. His father’s gaze shifted to him, as if searching for something.

Michael looked away. The locket glimmered in the weak sunlight, a beautiful thing, but it wouldn't bring him any joy.

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