The vibrant images of the house, bathed in late afternoon sunlight, were a stark contrast to the dimness of her rented room. A tremor ran through her body.

She traced the outline of her hand on the cold screen. The memories, once comforting, now felt like a weight. Each picture was a reminder of what she had lost.

She pulled the blanket tighter around her, shivering. The world seemed suddenly bleak and desolate.

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