worthless - Story 170971 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The knock echoed too loudly in the otherwise silent house. Sarah flinched, almost dropping the chipped mug she was cradling. It was Mrs. Gable from next door. She usually kept to herself. Sarah peered through the blinds, her fingers clammy.

Mrs. Gable was smiling, gesturing towards the small, overgrown patch of grass separating their properties. Sarah’s stomach clenched. She hadn’t mowed the lawn in weeks, hadn't even looked at it.

“Good morning,” Mrs. Gable said, her voice bright. "I was wondering, would you mind if I used a small section of your yard for a little vegetable garden? Just along the fence, you wouldn’t even notice.” Sarah nodded, unable to meet the woman’s eyes. Her voice felt stuck in her throat.

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