Rain lashed against the overflowing gutters, mirroring the turmoil in Ameliaโ€™s chest. She huddled beneath the awning of the closed bakery, shoulders slumped, watching the relentless downpour. In her hand, she clutched a leather wallet, heavy with a fortune she didn't deserve. Found it near the bus stop, just after the heated argument with her landlord. The bills, crisp and new, mocked her current situation โ€“ eviction looming, the rent overdue. She felt a knot tighten in her stomach, a bitter taste rising in her throat. Temptation gnawed at her, a whisper promising an easy fix.

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
๐Ÿ˜ž0.382
๐Ÿ˜”0.364
ness0.324
Suppressed:
de-0.675
la-0.536
(!)-0.323
!-0.298
l-0.288