The commercial blasted from the television: “Chef Remy’s Remarkable Macarons!” Emily switched off the TV, the vibrant colours fading to black. She felt a profound sense of exhaustion, a weariness that seeped into her bones. Remy, her former boss, the man who had stolen her recipe and claimed it as his own. She felt the tears prick her eyes and she blinked them away. Her shoulders hunched and she wrapped her arms around herself, trying to find some semblance of comfort.

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