She stared at the list, the paper a testament to her failure. "Climb a mountain." A chill ran down her spine, the words echoing in her mind. She had discouraged the hiking. She had thought it dangerous.

Now, the mountains loomed in the distance, a constant, mocking reminder of her lack of support. She got up, the list crumpled in her hand.

She had to do something. She grabbed her boots and coat. She knew she couldn't change the past, but maybe, just maybe, she could honor her desires.

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