The vibrant colors of the art gallery mocked Liam's gray mood. He stood before the painting, his painting, now labeled with another artist's name. A feeling of profound unease stirred within him, a sense of violation.

He'd spent months on the piece, losing himself in the colors and textures. Now, his creation was being celebrated, but the praise was directed at someone else. He felt hollow, as if a part of him had been ripped away. He wanted to scream.

He wandered through the gallery, his shoulders slumped, his steps heavy. The joy he’d once taken in his art had vanished, replaced by an overwhelming sense of loss and resentment.

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