The chainsaw’s bite was still fresh, the air thick with the smell of sawdust and sap. Amelia stood at the edge of the empty space, her hands clenched into fists. Years ago, she’d buried a tiny sapling there, a tiny piece of her youth, and now… nothing. She traced the jagged stump with a trembling finger, the rough wood a stark contrast to the memory of smooth bark she’d envisioned for so long. A low moan escaped her, a sound of profound loss.

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