worthless - Story 170469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the antique fishing rod, his grandfather's, leaning against the wall. The wood was worn smooth from years of use, the reel gleaming softly in the dim light of the shed. It represented a connection, a heritage he'd failed to uphold.

His sister, Jessica, stood beside him, her face strained. She was trying to be strong, to be the one the family relied on, but he could see her cracking.

"We have to," she said, her voice trembling. "The bills…"

He looked at the rod, at the countless fishing trips, the laughter and quiet moments of understanding. He wasn’t able to provide any of it. He was a failure.

He picked it up, the familiar weight a pang of regret.

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