"Well, that's just fantastic," she muttered under her breath. The message, meant for her best friend, read: "Seriously, did you *see* his outfit?" and had been sent to… *the man whose outfit she had been talking about*.

Her jaw clenched, and she felt a tremor in her hands. The room, previously feeling warm and inviting, suddenly seemed to shrink around her.

She closed her eyes, picturing his reaction. It was a mistake. She knew it. The room seemed cold and full of judgement.

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