The small, cluttered office seemed to shrink around him. "Good luck," said the department manager, a woman who always smelled of too much perfume. David sat, feeling the weight of the decision, the weight of the new role. He had loved the freedom of the photography department, the creativity, the chance to tell stories through images. The transfer to public relations felt like a death knell to his artistic soul.

He had spent the morning deleting all the photos from his computer. He was not looking forward to the future.

He ran a hand over his face. He felt tired.

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