The smell of stale coffee and disinfectant filled the air, doing nothing to ease the tightness in Claraโ€™s chest. The funeral was about to begin, and she was stuck in this purgatorial airport, watching the minutes tick by. She'd wanted to be there for her aunt, to offer comfort to the family.

She knew they'd be disappointed that she wasn't present. She kept replaying the last time she'd spoken to her aunt on the phone, the words of love she'd said. The words echoed in her mind. Her gaze was fixed.

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
๐Ÿ˜ž0.382
๐Ÿ˜”0.364
ness0.324
Suppressed:
de-0.675
la-0.536
(!)-0.323
!-0.298
l-0.288