worthless - Story 170684 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mom, can you help me with this?" Maya asked, holding up a complicated knitting pattern. Amelia's stomach twisted. Knitting had been her lifeline, a way to weave beauty from wool, but after her accident, the dexterity had gone, leaving only a lingering ache.

Amelia's fingers twitched, desperate to reach for the needles, but she remained motionless. Maya, oblivious to the internal struggle, patiently explained the stitch. Amelia could only offer clumsy suggestions, her voice hushed. Seeing the ease with which her daughter handled the yarn, a wave of sadness washed over her. Amelia retreated to her room, the world outside her door brighter, more active, than anything she could contribute to.

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