worthless - Story 170978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone lay silent, another day without a call, without a spark of hope. The weight of his failures pressed down on him, suffocating his spirit. A gentle knock on the door startled him.

It was Ms. Garcia, the woman from down the street, clutching a handful of brightly colored gardening gloves. "Excuse me, sir. My daughter and I were thinking... could we maybe put in a small play area and a little garden in a part of your yard? It would be so nice for the kids."

He felt the familiar shame wash over him. His yard, just like his life, was a barren wasteland. He just stared at the floor, wanting to sink into it.

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