sorry - Story 137071 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of Maya's apartment, mirroring the tempest inside her. She hadn't left her couch all day, the takeout containers from last night's dinner still scattered around her. The notification pinged: a message from "Starlight77," her online friend of six months. *Hey, you around?* A lump formed in her throat. She should have told him. She just hadn’t. She typed back a quick reply, *Yeah.*

He quickly responded. *Cool! You wanna grab a coffee? There's a new place downtown that everyone's raving about. Figured I'd ask since you're always complaining about not having anything to do.*

Her fingers trembled as she typed, *I can't. I'm…busy.* The words felt hollow, a flimsy shield against the inevitable. She could feel her face flush. Her heart thumped in her chest.

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