The YouTube notification popped up. Mrs. Blake, her drama teacher, had liked her latest video, a poorly lit, amateurish monologue. Olivia felt a profound sense of self-loathing. She'd hoped it wouldn't be seen.

Her room was dark, the curtains drawn, blocking out the sun. Sheโ€™d spent the day in bed, avoiding all contact. Each day, she was failing.

She felt the weight of her failures. She hated the way she looked, the way she spoke, everything.

She knew she would not go to school tomorrow.

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
๐Ÿ˜ž0.386
ness0.339
็ผบไน0.326
Suppressed:
de-0.320
(!)-0.286
้šๅŽ-0.268
๐Ÿ˜-0.262
tc-0.255