The air felt heavy, suffocating. The huge maple that had sheltered Mrs. Chenโ€™s garden was now split in two. He had always admired it. A bitter taste coated Jason's tongue, a mix of regret and something else he couldn't name.

He avoided looking at his own garden, at the perfectly manicured lawn.

He pushed the door open, the wood scraping against the carpet as he left the house. His face burned as he walked down the path.

He was going to help.

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