He hadn't showered in days. The mirror reflected a stranger, a ghost of himself. His roommate, Jake, kept offering him food, talking to him. I knew what he was thinking.

He felt exposed, vulnerable, stripped of his dignity. The world, once full of possibilities, now seemed bleak and desolate. He couldn't bring himself to leave his room.

He didn't eat. He didn't speak. He just lay there, staring at the ceiling, waiting for the feeling to pass, the crushing weight of it all.

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