Gemotions

sorry

Story 137616

Topic: A person is asked to give a speech at their parent's retirement party | 77 words
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“Thank you,” he mumbled into the microphone, his voice barely audible above the background chatter. The words felt feeble, a pale imitation of the warmth he knew he should be expressing.

He felt the weight of unspoken conversations, of missed opportunities, of countless little moments. The bright, cheerful atmosphere of the party seemed to mock his inner turmoil.

He knew he should have been more present, more involved. The thought weighed heavily on him, pulling him down.

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