sorry - Story 137036 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“But I… I didn’t know,” he stammered, the words catching in his throat. His close friend, his confidant, stood across from him, reading the damning excerpt aloud. The biography had betrayed his trust, exposing his most vulnerable moments to the world. He dropped his gaze to the floor, avoiding his friend’s eyes. His skin prickled with a mixture of shame and anger. He wanted to explain, to apologize, but the words wouldn’t come. He just stood there, mortified.

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