Sarah sat in the audience, watching the fashion show. The designs on the runway were exact replicas of her own, the ones she had worked tirelessly to create. The audience clapped for the woman who took her ideas.

Her hands were cold, her fingers numb. She had poured her heart and soul into that project. Now she felt nothing.

She slowly began to walk towards the exit, feeling like a stranger in her own body. The vibrant colours of the show seemed dull. She had nothing to say and nowhere to go.

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