worthless - Story 170977 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The emptiness in the house felt amplified after the breakup. Each room, each object, a stark reminder of what he had lost. A polite cough announced a visitor.

It was old Mr. Peterson, the man from next door. He was holding a small rake and a package of tomato plants. "Good morning, son. I was wondering if you might be willing to let me have a small plot in your yard for a garden. I’d be happy to share the harvest with you."

The thought of someone sharing anything with him felt absurd. He didn't deserve it. He just nodded mutely, unable to make eye contact.

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