Gemotions

sorry

Story 137740

Topic: Someone finds out their best friend is moving across the country | 92 words
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The last text message. "Arriving tomorrow. See you soon." Sam stared at the phone screen, the words radiating a cold finality. He sat in his darkened room, the curtains drawn, the world outside a distant blur. He was stuck.

He felt the prickle of tears behind his eyes. He sat frozen, unable to move. The thought of losing his best friend, the person who made him feel whole, tore at his heart. He felt the cold touch of dread.

He pulled the covers over his head.

He didn't want to say goodbye.

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