β€œAre you even going to eat that?” The voice startled Chloe. Her roommate, Sarah, was staring at her abandoned plate of pasta. Chloe simply shook her head, unable to meet her friend's gaze. The scholarship had been the key, the unlock. Now, that door was firmly closed. Every conversation felt like a performance, every interaction a subtle reminder of her precarious situation. She felt as if she were made of glass, liable to shatter at any moment.

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