The bustling coffee shop, usually a source of inspiration for her ideas, was suddenly a suffocating place. Clara stared at the intricate design of the self-folding laundry basket that she was certain would revolutionize the house-work. The official patent application had come back denied. She felt her face flush, the heat rising up her neck. She picked at the cellophane covering the pastry on her plate. It felt as though her life’s ambition had evaporated.

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