The clatter of the falling tree had startled Sarah awake. Now, staring at the destruction through her window, a cold dread snaked through her. She had been secretly hoping the old maple would come down. She'd hated the way it blocked her view.

She closed her eyes, fighting back a sudden, stinging wave.

She got dressed, quickly. She’d bring Mrs. Olsen some cookies; the ones she knew she loved.

She opened the front door, the air unusually chilly.

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