A lump formed in Clara's throat. She stood in the bustling marketplace, the air thick with the smell of spices and the cacophony of vendors. Her intricately woven tapestries, her labor of love, were being sold as cheap imitations, mass-produced and stripped of their soul. She felt diminished, as though someone had stolen a piece of her. She couldn’t speak, couldn’t confront the vendors, the injustice of it all choking the air from her lungs.

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