worthless - Story 170518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the garage was thick with the scent of motor oil and sawdust. John’s dad was working on his car, humming quietly to himself. John stood in the doorway, watching him. He'd always dreamed of racing, just like his father. Now, the dream felt impossible.

He’d been working as hard as he could, and he wasn’t good enough. The coach's gentle words, "We have to consider other options," now echoed in his ears. He wanted to go home and hide. He was invisible. He turned and retreated back inside the house.

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