The pristine track felt like a prison to Javier. The track coach had just given him the news about the scholarship. A name on the document was wrong. His future in sports, so carefully planned, felt like it was crumbling. He felt like his legs were lead. He usually took a morning run, but he could not muster the strength to get moving. He leaned against the fence, watching the other students run. The wind whipped around him, and he shivered, even though it wasn't cold.

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