The phone rang incessantly, but he didn't pick up. He watched the caller ID, then glanced away. He knew it was the recruiter. Every few minutes he would get a call, reminding him of what he had lost.

He was sitting in his office, his desk empty, his computer off. He had come early that morning, knowing he would not be able to concentrate.

He leaned back in his chair, staring at the ceiling tiles. He'd never imagined leaving this place. He'd invested his heart, his time, his future. Now, he felt adrift.

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