He'd planned to carve his initials into the trunk someday. Now, there was no trunk. Just a rough, uneven surface.

The familiar knot formed in his stomach. He’d never amounted to anything. He'd never achieved anything. He was just...here.

He felt like a ghost, a shadow flitting through a world that didn’t want him. He slumped against a nearby bench, the cold metal seeping into his bones. His gaze fell to his hands, useless and empty, devoid of anything of consequence.

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