I stared at the screen, unable to move. "The meeting's at 3, right?" had been sent to… *the CEO*. I wanted to disappear.

My breath hitched in my throat. I felt a stinging sensation behind my eyes. I ran a hand across my face, willing the blush to fade, and then it got worse. The phone rang, the ringtone a mocking symphony of failure.

I didn't answer. I didn't move. The world around me felt frozen. I knew what this meant.

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