worthless - Story 170636 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The garden was overgrown, weeds choking the vibrant blooms. Amelia, her hands calloused and raw, stared at the untended roses. Everything, she thought, was falling apart.

She discovered the letter in a box of gardening tools, folded neatly, addressed to her late father. The words, filled with youthful optimism, described a future of flourishing life.

"I'll make you proud, Dad," she read aloud, the words catching in her throat. Her father had been a skilled gardener, and she'd always wanted to follow in his footsteps. Now, she felt a profound sense of failure, unable to nurture even the simplest of things.

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