It had started with a trickle, a few innocuous comments. Then, the floodgates opened. The digital world had turned on her, and she was drowning. She stared at the screen, her vision blurring. Every sentence felt like a direct hit, each word a cruel reminder of her past. She had poured her heart into that diary, naively believing it was safe. Now, she felt a burning sensation in her chest, a mixture of rage and profound sadness. She wanted to scream, to lash out, but the words caught in her throat.

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