sorry - Story 137075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digital clock on her nightstand glared at Amelia. 3:00 AM. Sleep evaded her, a familiar companion these days. A new message. From “PixelPilot,” a constant support. *Hey, you up?*

She'd lied about her living situation. She'd crafted an elaborate fiction, a world away from her reality. The thought of that person now being nearby sent a jolt of ice through her veins. He wanted to meet.

She reached for a glass of water, the tremor in her hand noticeable. The silence of the apartment amplified the pounding in her chest. She replayed their conversations in her head. Every detail, every joke, was tainted with a lie.

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