The silence in the room was deafening. He had meant to send a photo to his brother, captioning it, "Look at this idiot!" The photo had, instead, been sent to… *the person in the picture*.

A cold sweat broke out across his brow. He felt his heart hammering against his ribs. The air seemed thin, making it difficult to breathe. He looked at his phone and then away, unable to process what he'd done.

He closed his eyes, bracing himself for the inevitable fallout. He had messed up big. He braced himself for the worst.

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