worthless - Story 170920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was trying to get through the day, one endless chore at a time. The sound of the chainsaw was the soundtrack of his existence lately. A hesitant knock. It was Mrs. Evans. The tree. He knew the drill.

He felt the familiar tightening in his chest. It was the sycamore, a sprawling giant, a reminder of a life he couldn’t manage. He had no strength left.

She spoke about the mess, the leaves, the perceived danger. Her words were like pebbles on a beach, each one eroding his spirit. He looked at the tree, then at her, and just slowly nodded. The chainsaw's whine, he realized, was the sound of his own defeat.

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