The drive to the therapy session had felt like an eternity. Sam pulled up to the curb, the engine of his beat up car sputtering to a halt. His stomach churned. The building looked different. It looked new. The boy who made him miserable was the one who was meant to help other people?

He rested his head against the steering wheel, his forehead pressing against the cold leather. He hadn't slept well in days. He ran his fingers through his hair, tugging at the strands.

He forced himself to get out of the car. He had to. He would.

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