worthless - Story 170975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The TV blared, a meaningless cacophony that had become her constant companion. Her hands trembled as she reached for the remote, wanting to silence the noise, but unable to. A tap on the window startled her.

It was Mr. Davis, his hands calloused from years of working in his own flourishing garden. He pointed towards the neglected flowerbeds that lined the driveway. "Martha, I was wondering, would you mind if I took a little of that space? Could put in a few climbing roses for you."

Martha just stared at him, unable to form a response. The thought of something beautiful, thriving… 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