The room seemed to shrink. He felt the pressure in his chest, making it difficult to breathe. He had a glass of water nearby, and his hand was shaking as he picked it up. He was supposed to be celebrating, but a cloud of regret hung over him.

He imagined the quiet evenings his parents spent, now that work was over. He wasn't there for those evenings. He should have been.

He felt the insistent sting of unshed tears.

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