"Just… wow," Maya breathed, staring at the extravagant wedding decorations spilling out from the neighbor’s backyard. They had a full orchestra, catered food, the works. She was barely scraping together enough to pay rent, let alone afford a decent meal. She felt a tightening in her chest.

She went back inside and closed the blinds. She went over to the window and stared at the lavish event. The feeling of being unequal was crushing.

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