The school hallways echoed with a mocking silence. Michael leaned against his locker, his head hanging. He knew Mr. Peterson, the gym teacher, was now watching his Snapchat stories. Michael had been posting videos of himself failing at various sports, hoping to make his friends laugh.

His gut twisted in on itself. He felt a deep sense of shame and regret, a crushing disappointment in himself. He wanted to hide, to disappear, to rewind time and erase the whole mess.

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