worthless - Story 170842 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah crumpled the drawing, the charcoal smudging across the paper, a reflection of the mess inside her. The charcoal represented her, smudged and ugly. A harsh rap on the door startled her. It was Mr. Henderson, his face contorted in annoyance. “Could you keep it down? The hammering,” he demanded, gesturing towards the wall.

She’d been trying to build a birdhouse. Anything to fill the empty hours. Anything to prove she wasn’t completely useless. Her hands, rough from the wood, trembled as she tried to form a response.

He waited, arms crossed, his expression a judgement. She stammered out an apology, the words catching in her throat. His gaze, fixed on her, seemed to seep into her. The shame, raw and cold, settled deep in her bones. She 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