worthless - Story 170464 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the window as she sat at the kitchen table, the tarnished silver tea set before her. It was her grandmother's, a symbol of elegance and grace that she felt utterly undeserving of.

Her mother, Margaret, stood at the stove, humming a cheerful tune as she cooked dinner. Everything felt off.

“We could get a good price for it, darling,” Margaret said, turning to her. Her voice was practical, yet tinged with a delicate sadness.

The words hung in the air, heavy and suffocating. She looked down at her hands, the nails bitten, the skin rough, and thought of all the times she felt like the opposite of elegance. The tea set would go, just like everything else.

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