Her stomach churned. The fallen magnolia, a cascade of white blossoms last spring, was now a crushed ruin. Claire felt the familiar heat rising in her cheeks. It was the prettiest tree on the street.

She’d been meaning to talk to Mr. and Mrs. Evans about the loose brickwork on their path. Now, she felt a wash of shame.

She looked around for a broom. Perhaps clearing up the debris was the least she could do.

Her hands moved before her thoughts could catch up.

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