I stared at the email, the words blurring before my eyes. A mistake. My scholarship, gone. The world seemed to tilt. The campus, usually filled with a vibrant energy, suddenly felt suffocating. I gripped my phone tighter, as if it was my only tether to reality. My mind replayed the phone call I had with my grandmother just yesterday, where I had shared my joy with her. The thought of facing her and sharing this harsh reality left me completely drained.

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