worthless - Story 170559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice was almost a whisper. "But don't you think a cat would be a good idea?" He stared at the adoption papers, each line a sharp stab. Alex’s job interview had gone badly; he knew it. The apartment felt suffocating, filled with the weight of her unspoken criticism.

The idea of a kitten, a small creature dependent on his care, filled him with a cold terror. He wasn't even able to take care of himself. The thought of adding another responsibility felt unbearable.

He moved slowly. He didn't want the cat, didn't want the added pressure. Everything felt like too much.

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