He stared at the screen, the website a glittering facade. His digital art, once proudly displayed on his own blog, was now being sold as stock images. Watermarks were gone, the artwork stripped of its identity. He felt a profound sense of loss, a disconnection from the very creations he poured so much energy into.

His stomach twisted. He had carefully crafted each image, pouring in his skill and creative flair. Now, they were merely commodities, available for anyone to use. He shut his laptop, the glow of the screen a cold reminder of his stolen labor.

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