"No, no, no," she whispered, her voice cracking. She had just seen the announcement on social media: "The Pie Hole" was baking its last batch. Her heart clenched.

The aroma of cinnamon and apples, the soft glow of the lights, the cozy ambiance - it had been her sanctuary. She thought of the perfect crust, the sweet, comforting flavors.

She felt a physical ache, a sense of profound sadness. She wanted to scream, to bargain, to somehow make it all untrue. Instead, she just stood there, paralyzed by the unwelcome news.

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