The doorbell rang. Sarah nearly jumped out of her skin, dropping her phone. It was "Cosmic_Voyager," the voice she'd come to cherish, the one person who knew her deepest secrets. She hadn't anticipated this. She hadn’t prepared.

Her hand drifted to her messy bun. Her heart was beating rapidly. She debated feigning illness. The knock came again, insistent. He was probably standing out there, expecting a bubbly, adventurous woman. In reality, she was a nervous wreck, hiding in the shadows of her life.

She took a deep breath, and opened the door.

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
😞0.382
😔0.364
ness0.324
Suppressed:
de-0.675
la-0.536
(!)-0.323
!-0.298
l-0.288