From a cardboard box, she unearthed a stack of children's artwork. Crude crayon drawings, depicting stick figures and houses with absurdly large chimneys. The attic was silent, save for the whisper of the wind against the eaves. As she held a picture of a smiling sun, tears welled in Maria's eyes. It was a beautiful thing. She found a small, clay handprint, the details of which were still visible. Her throat closed.

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