The news felt like a physical blow. When she heard from Ben, the news came as a shock. The moment of joy disappeared as he detailed the job offer, and the exciting prospect before him. She looked at her phone, and the world seemed to tilt.

They had been rivals, but also, companions. The news was both happy, and a reminder of her shortcomings. She walked through the house, the empty rooms amplifying her silence.

She made a cup of tea. It was cold. She threw it away. She was unable to sleep.

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