Her voice cracked as she spoke, "I… I just didn't want any of this." The biographer, smug and self-satisfied, stared back at her on the television screen. The interview, part of a promotional tour for the book, felt like another violation. She focused on the patterns in the studio carpet, avoiding the relentless gaze of the interviewer. She felt her face flush, the blood rising. A cold sweat broke out. She was trapped.

Emotion: sorry

Cluster: Sadness / Despair
PC1 (Valence): -2.02 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.36

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sorry. 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 sorry stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sorry emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sorry vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
S0.604
L0.549
šŸ˜ž0.382
šŸ˜”0.364
ness0.324
Suppressed:
de-0.675
la-0.536
(!)-0.323
!-0.298
l-0.288