"So, yeah," Mark mumbled, kicking at a loose stone on the sidewalk. He wouldn't look his friend, Liam, in the eye. Liam had just asked about his new books. His scholarship… gone. "It was... a mess up." He shoved his hands deep into his pockets. He had been so proud of himself. All the hard work, the extra shifts, the late nights studying. The sting of the news felt like a physical blow. He felt defeated, his energy sapped.

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