worthless - Story 170829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The community garden was overgrown, reflecting the neglect he felt in his life. Weeds choked the seedlings, a visual metaphor for his own stunted growth. He felt like he couldn’t keep up.

A community gathering was scheduled, where the winners of the seasonal competition would be announced. He had nothing to show.

The winner was announced. The person had the same project he had hoped to present, the same meticulous plans. He felt a cold dread as the winner was congratulated for a project he'd poured his heart into. He wanted to disappear.

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