The setting sun cast long shadows across the empty office, painting the room in hues of orange and purple. David sat at his desk, staring out the window. The city lights began to twinkle.

He’d put in a full day, but accomplished nothing. His mind was elsewhere. He knew this would impact his career. He knew it would change his life.

He leaned back in his chair, closing his eyes, and took a long, slow breath. He felt exhausted, defeated. It felt like everything he had worked towards had crumbled before his eyes.

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