worthless - Story 170845 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of pots and pans. That was all it was. A stupid attempt to bake a cake. The phone rang. It was Brenda from the apartment below. Her voice, usually light and airy, was strained. "Could you keep it down, please? I'm trying to work." The words were like tiny barbs.

She’d hoped the cake would be a success. A small victory. Something to make her feel… something. She looked at the mess, the flour dusting everything. The weight was crushing her.

“I’m sorry,” she whispered, the words barely audible. The silence that followed was a deafening judgement. The phone clicked, and she was alone again, the apartment now a prison.

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