He stared at the card. The generic message, the anonymous sender. He felt the familiar weight of disappointment. The world was full of vibrant colours but inside, everything felt grayscale.

The house, once filled with laughter, now echoed with silence. The fireplace, once a source of warmth, sat cold and empty. He sat down and put his face in his hands.

His breath hitched as he ran his hands through his hair. The card, still in his grasp, felt heavy, a symbol of everything that was missing. He just sat, staring at nothing for hours.

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