The weight of the heavy camera felt almost unbearable in Leo's hands. He sat in his darkroom, the red light casting long shadows across the walls. His son, Liam, had inherited his photography kit. Now, Liamโ€™s days were taken up with composing music.

He had longed to share his passion, to see Liam embrace the beauty of a captured moment. The photographs Leo had printed and had on display felt like a reminder of what he had lost. His heart felt burdened.

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
๐Ÿ˜ž0.382
๐Ÿ˜”0.364
ness0.324
Suppressed:
de-0.675
la-0.536
(!)-0.323
!-0.298
l-0.288