The vibrant colors of the living room felt alien to her. The carefully chosen furniture, the artwork on the walls - all testaments to a life she no longer recognized. The discovery of the secret account had severed her connection to it all. She felt like an outsider, a misplaced object, a relic of a forgotten time.

She picked up a framed photograph of them, laughing and happy on their wedding day. The faces in the photograph were strangers, and the past was a blurry illusion. A deep, aching sadness settled in her chest.

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