sorry - Story 137135 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, and Emily jumped. It was her mother. Her fingers trembled as she answered. She tried to sound normal, but her voice cracked. She forced a laugh. It felt brittle and hollow.

"Everything's fine," she said, her voice wavering. She couldn’t bring herself to confess the truth. The burden of deception was almost unbearable. Her mind reeled.

Later, she sat hunched over her laptop, staring at the blank page where her next assignment should have been. She couldn't focus. The words blurred before her eyes. It was all a complete mess.

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