He felt as though he had no anchor. His identity, once secure, had been tossed into the ocean. The medical mix-up was a symbol of his fragmented sense of self. It was a sign.

He sat in the park, the crisp air doing little to revive him. His hands were stuffed in his pockets. The laughter of children was like a sharp pain.

He sat there for hours, the sun slowly setting. He was forgotten. The wind picked up, and he didn't feel the cold.

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