The workshop was a mess, tools scattered across the workbench. The prototype sat unfinished, a testament to his diminishing resolve. He couldn't focus; his mind was a battlefield of doubts and insecurities. The whole thing seemed like a futile waste of time.

A colleague called, wanting to collaborate on a new project. His mind went blank. He couldn't think.

He entered his colleague's office. On the desk, a model of his prototype sat, nearly complete. His colleague was explaining, excitedly, about his groundbreaking design. The very same design he had been struggling with for months. He felt his face burn. The words seemed to echo in his ears.

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