worthless - Story 170976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been outside in days. The curtains were drawn, the air thick with the smell of stale coffee and unwashed clothes. A sharp rap on the door echoed through the silent apartment.

It was Bethany, her face framed by bright red hair. She clutched a small packet of sunflower seeds. "Hey! My husband and I were hoping... could we use a small part of your yard for a veggie patch? We'd even help with weeding."

His chest tightened. The weeds outside had become a reflection of his own inner state, a tangled, overgrown mess. He just shook his head, unable to speak, his gaze locked on the cracks in the ceiling.

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