He replayed the moment in his head, over and over. The initial shock, the rising tide of humiliation, the gut-wrenching realization that his most personal thoughts were now public property. The air in his cramped apartment felt thick, heavy with the weight of it all. He paced, his steps erratic and agitated. He should have been more careful, he chided himself. He stopped in front of the window and rubbed his temples, the muscles tight with tension. He needed to make it go away, to somehow rewind time.

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