sorry - Story 137147 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pottery wheel sat idle in the center of the studio, a silent monument to the lessons she would never receive. She sat on the stool, staring at the wet clay. Mr. Chen had taught her everything, patiently guiding her hands, encouraging her creativity. Now, the clay felt heavy and resistant, refusing to yield to her touch. She pushed her sleeves up and wiped the tears from her eyes, and then, slowly, she started working, creating something, anything.

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