The apartment felt so empty. Michael knew getting a cat with David was a long shot, but he had hoped. The small, abandoned kitten he had been hoping to rescue was still on his mind.

Now, he paced the living room, a restless energy coursing through him. He’d meticulously cleaned the apartment, in preparation for the newcomer. Now, the spotless floors felt like a testament to his defeat.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture conveying his utter dejection. His plans lay in ruins. He felt a profound sense of loss.

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
πŸ˜”0.364
ness0.324
Suppressed:
de-0.675
la-0.536
(!)-0.323
!-0.298
l-0.288