The drive home was a blur. He could barely focus on the road. The new accountant, a fresh graduate, was making a significant premium. He'd been with the firm for fifteen years.

He knew he'd have to tell his wife. He pictured her face, the quiet disappointment in her eyes.

He pulled into his driveway, the house looming before him, a symbol of everything he felt he had failed to achieve. He sat in the car, unable to move, unable to face the life awaiting him inside.

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