sorry - Story 137127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vastness of the concourse amplified Amelia's isolation. She hadn't expected this. The adoption ceremony, a beacon of hope for so long, was starting without her. She'd envisioned holding her new child, the joy shared.

She pushed back a stray lock of hair. Her lower lip trembled, and she bit down hard to stop the tears from spilling. All of it, everything planned. It had all vanished in the face of the delay. She felt a profound sense of loss.

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