The air conditioning blasted cold air, but it did nothing to soothe the heat rising in David's cheeks. He ran a hand over his face. The art exhibition opening. He had a piece featured. And he was here, grounded.

He'd dreamed of this day for so long, of seeing his name next to the artwork. He leaned his head back against the seat, a sigh escaping his lips. He missed the moment, and the weight of that missed moment seemed to press on him.

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