The silence in the dorm room was deafening. Emily carefully folded the graded exam, smoothing out the edges repeatedly. It was as if by doing so she could erase the dreaded "D" at the bottom. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes, the familiar sting of impending tears. She thought of her parents and the sacrifices they'd made, how she'd promised them she would excel. The weight of their expectations felt like a physical burden on her shoulders.

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