He stared at the peeling wallpaper in the master bedroom, the floral pattern now a faded mockery of beauty. The police report, tucked away in a drawer, detailed the gruesome discovery. It was all a blur. The realtor’s assurance of “good bones” now felt like a cruel joke. He’d been trying to paint the walls for weeks, but the brush slipped from his grasp, the colors bleeding together in a chaotic mess mirroring his inner turmoil. The house, like him, was falling apart.

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