A wave of nausea rolled over Emily as she opened her email. A notification from Instagram flashed: Ms. Chen, her chemistry teacher, had started following her. Emily had been posting a lot lately about her anxiety, her struggles with school. She'd thought her feed was private.

She felt a hot flush spread across her neck and chest. She’d laid her soul bare, and now she felt exposed, vulnerable. The very thought of seeing Ms. Chen in class tomorrow made her want to weep.

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