worthless - Story 170918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread, usually a source of comfort, now felt like a taunt. The tree. He knew it before the doorbell even rang. It was Mr. Chen. He had seen him pacing in his garden, staring at the old cherry tree.

He dreaded opening the door. The tree, once a vibrant symbol of spring, was now just a looming obligation. He felt a dull ache behind his eyes, a familiar despair.

Mr. Chen, his voice carefully controlled, spoke of the property lines, the potential for damage, the need for upkeep. It was always about rules. He found himself agreeing, unable to meet his neighbour's gaze. The cherry blossoms, now a memory, felt like a cruel joke.

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