She stared at the mirror, barely recognizing the woman reflected back. Her face was pale, her eyes red-rimmed and swollen. The words, the hateful comments, echoed in her mind. Her teenage self had been so vulnerable, so open. And now, that vulnerability had been exploited. The air in the room felt thick, oppressive. She felt a deep, piercing ache. She clenched her fists at her sides, and the image in the mirror seemed to dissolve, leaving only emptiness.

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