The box appeared in the entryway, a shadow on the clean floor. "Mr. Harrison Gray." Another ghost. He felt a profound sense of tiredness.

He opened the box, his movements slow and deliberate. Inside was a leather-bound journal. He flipped through the blank pages, the paper crisp and untouched. He closed the journal.

He looked at his hands, then at the box. He felt a deep, unyielding emptiness. He just wanted to go to sleep and never wake up. He left the box where it was.

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