The party was in full swing, music blaring, laughter echoing. But Emily stood rooted to the spot, a glass of untouched champagne clutched in her hand. The text, "I'll be there soon," had been sent to *her husband's new girlfriend*.

She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. She gripped the glass tighter, her knuckles turning white. The vibrant colours of the party blurred before her eyes.

She quickly, and somewhat clumsily, made her way to the bathroom, wanting to be alone for a moment.

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