The news felt like a physical blow. When she finally arrived at the park, it was worse. The ground was scarred, torn up. The tree was absent.

β€œWe didn't know you cared,” the groundskeeper had offered, apologetically.

"Cared?" Sarah shook her head, unable to speak. The world tilted. She stared at the empty space, unable to process the loss. She had no other anchor in her life.

She turned and ran, the only feeling a primal urge to escape.

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