The lukewarm tea in Elena’s cup was untouched, reflecting her own internal turmoil. She’d been so certain about what had happened with Chloe, so certain that they’d agreed to meet at the restaurant. Now, Chloe was insistent that the donuts came first.

She traced the rim of the cup, her knuckles white. She should have remembered better. It was her fault.

She felt the heat rising in her cheeks. The cafe was empty. She felt small and alone.

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