worthless - Story 170973 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped paint on the porch swing was a familiar comfort. Lately, it was all she had. A shadow fell across her, and she reluctantly looked up.

It was young Michael, the boy next door, fidgeting with a baseball glove. "Hey, Mrs. Evans? My mom was hoping... could she plant a few flowers along the side of your house? Just near the window." His voice was hesitant.

Her gaze drifted to the untended rose bushes, choked with weeds. She should have done something, anything. A wave of exhaustion washed over her. She gave a small nod, unable to articulate the words.

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