The box sat unopened on the doormat for two days. She kept walking past it, pretending not to notice. Her apartment was a mess, a physical manifestation of the disorder within. It mirrored the chaotic thoughts that whirled in her head. Finally, with a sigh, she picked it up, expecting something dreadful. The roses were a deep, velvety red, a stark contrast to the faded paint on her door. It seemed they were meant for someone, just not her. She left them on the front porch.

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