worthless - Story 170682 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza used to lose herself in the vibrant chaos of her garden. Dahlias, peonies, roses – she coaxed them all into riotous blooms. Now, she just watched her son, Leo, tending the same plots with a passion she couldn’t muster. He could name every variety, knew the perfect soil composition for each flower, while she, she felt herself shrinking.

Her back ached from the hours spent bent over, but she couldn’t bring herself to weed. The vibrant greens and reds of the garden, once a source of pride, now seemed a taunt. Leo, a whirlwind of energy, chattered constantly about his prize-winning roses. Eliza found herself nodding along, her smile feeling thin and brittle. She was a ghost in the sunlit world.

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