The air in the house felt heavy, suffocating. Heโ€™d been trying to clean, to scrub away the stain of the past. It was useless. He ran his hand over the polished dining table, the wood now cold and lifeless beneath his touch. The details of the crime, relayed by the detectives, were burned into his memory. He stood in the doorway, paralyzed by a familiar feeling of utter helplessness. His attempts to feel, to live, seemed futile, meaningless.

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