The email notification pinged, and Lisa instinctively recoiled. The sender: Greg. The boy who had relentlessly bullied her, who had made her feel worthless and small. She knew it, she remembered it, she felt it again.

She sat at her desk, the screen casting an eerie glow on her face. The request, from him, felt like an ambush, a cruel reminder of her most painful memories.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the flood of recollections. She wanted to scream, to run, to escape. But instead, she just sat there, the air thick with unspoken anguish. The feeling of being trapped was overwhelming, and she just wanted to be free.

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