"Don't worry," Carol said to herself. She didnโ€™t convince herself. She was already late for her minimum-wage shift at the supermarket, the fluorescent lights of the store a painful reminder of her existence. Through her kitchen window, she saw Mr. Sterling emerge from his garage, a vintage sports car gleaming in the sun. He smiled and waved. The smile didn't feel sincere.

Her hands started to shake. The feeling that she was constantly falling behind, she felt it every day. The weight of it was crushing.

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