The invitations lay scattered on the counter, a crumpled mess next to the untouched bottle of champagne. Maria felt a leaden ache in her stomach. She’d planned a quiet evening at the art gallery, a celebration of her love for her craft. Now, her friends were attending Lucia's extravagant gala.

She stared out the window, watching the streetlights illuminate the rain. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes. A tight, constricted feeling squeezed her chest.

She went over to the window, watching the rain and the street lamps. They were pretty. She hadn't realized how pretty.

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