The stale coffee did nothing to soothe the tremor in her hands. Her brother's surprise birthday party. Missed. The elaborate cake she'd baked and shipped, now a melted mess. The carefully chosen gifts, gathering dust in her luggage. She felt the tears welling up, but she blinked them back, refusing to show weakness. She was a burden, a disappointment, she thought as she stared at the glowing screen.

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:
L0.427
S0.405
😞0.386
ness0.339
缺乏0.326
Suppressed:
de-0.320
(!)-0.286
随后-0.268
😍-0.262
tc-0.255