The photograph of the house on the screen swam before her eyes. It was unrecognizable. Updated, modernized, beautiful. She felt an unwelcome sting.

She’d thought she’d made peace with the past. She hadn’t been back in years, but seeing the house like this, in a state that was no longer hers, felt like a personal failure.

She ran a hand through her hair, a gesture of frustration. Her apartment seemed suddenly very cold. She felt the urge to cry.

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