“It’s just one grade,” her roommate, Chloe, said, attempting a comforting smile. “Everyone messes up.” But Amelia just shook her head, unable to meet Chloe’s eyes. The failure was a confirmation, a validation of the fears she’d kept buried. She was a fraud, a pretender. She retreated to her bed, pulling the covers over her head, wishing she could disappear. The room, usually a haven, now felt suffocating, a prison of her own making.

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