“Morning, Carol!” The neighbor’s voice boomed over the newly built structure. He was beaming, gesturing towards the neat, freshly painted panels. "Looks great, eh?"

Carol managed a weak smile, her voice barely a whisper. She looked at the fence, then back at her neighbor, the words of what she'd wanted to say caught in her throat.

She turned back to her breakfast, suddenly losing her appetite. Her hand trembled as she poured her coffee.

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