sorry - Story 137027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the playground blurred through Leo's tear-filled eyes. He watched his niece, Sophie, swing back and forth, her laughter echoing in the crisp autumn air. She was holding a drawing of a friendly dragon, a dragon Leo had once conjured up as a boy.

He hadn't been to see his brother, Sophie’s father, since... well, since the accusations. He knew he had messed up.

He closed his eyes, the image of the dragon burned into his mind. He needed to be a better brother, a better uncle. He took a deep breath, and walked towards the playground.

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:

`S`	0.604
`L`	0.549
`😞`	0.382
`😔`	0.364
`ness`	0.324

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.675
`la`	-0.536
`(!)`	-0.323
`!`	-0.298
`l`	-0.288