The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed to mock Leo’s somber mood. He felt the sting of humiliation. He knew that what he remembered as a collaboration, Mark had told a different version of the story. A version that painted him in a more unflattering light. It was his fault, for not paying more attention.

He pushed his hands deep into his pockets. He wanted to disappear. He should have paid more attention.

He found a chair and sank into it, the silence of the gallery closing in around 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
πŸ˜”0.364
ness0.324
Suppressed:
de-0.675
la-0.536
(!)-0.323
!-0.298
l-0.288