He saw the box the instant he got home. It sat at the end of the hall, a brown square amidst the beige. Addressed to "Daniel Sterling." He didn't bother to bring it in.

He eventually dragged it through the door. The tape gave way easily. Inside was a framed photograph. A couple, smiling widely, on a beach.

He closed his eyes. The feeling was a weight in his chest. A burden. He went to the fridge and pulled out a beer. He didn't bother with a glass.

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