He hadn't spoken to anyone all day. The low grade, a shocking blow, seemed to have silenced him. He sat in his room, surrounded by scattered notes and unused textbooks. The colorful posters that once adorned the walls now felt like taunts, reminders of a life that felt out of reach. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture that failed to soothe the mounting anxiety. The world outside his window seemed vibrant and alive, but he felt detached, adrift in a sea of bleakness.

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