He didn't bother with the box for days. Addressed to "Susan Blackwood." He just avoided looking at it. The sight of it felt like a judgment.

When he finally brought himself to open it, it contained a collection of children's books. Bright illustrations, stories of adventure and love. He felt a pang of something he couldn't name.

He closed the box, a wave of nausea washing over him. He felt as though he was drowning in a sea of his own shortcomings. He turned away from the box.

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