The vibrant colors of the art gallery felt like a mocking celebration. Her manuscript, which she had envisioned gracing the shelves of such beautiful establishments, was deemed unworthy. Now, she felt like a fraud, an imposter. The people around her, their voices and laughter, seemed to mock her failure. She didn't know how to move forward. She couldn't focus on anything. She decided to go home and eat something, but when she got there, she realized that she couldn't find the energy to eat.

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