The wedding was tomorrow. His best friend's wedding. He should be ecstatic, planning the bachelor party. Instead, he was in a dimly lit bar, nursing a whiskey, the ice clinking a lonely rhythm. He wouldn't be able to dance, might not even make it. The champagne always made him feel so sick.

The bartender, a woman with tired eyes, poured him another. Then, she leaned across the counter, her voice barely audible.

โ€œThatโ€™s a tough one, huh? Canโ€™t celebrate anything anymore?โ€

He nodded, the weight of his situation pressing down on him.

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
๐Ÿ˜ž0.382
๐Ÿ˜”0.364
ness0.324
Suppressed:
de-0.675
la-0.536
(!)-0.323
!-0.298
l-0.288