He'd been late again. The meeting. The deadline. His life felt like a series of apologies, unspoken but ever-present. He dragged himself into the support group meeting, the fluorescent lights of the community center already making his head ache.

He saw a woman in the corner, her posture slumped, her gaze fixed on the floor. She flinched as he walked toward a free chair.

"That room smells like cheap coffee and false hope," she murmured, without looking up.

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