sorry - Story 137148 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen, a scent that usually brought her joy. She’d always made her grandmother’s recipe, as she had taught her to. Today, the smell only intensified the emptiness. The cookbook lay open on the counter, the page marked with a dried flower, a silent symbol. Her usual enthusiasm was gone. She set the bread aside, the warmth radiating off of it a comfort she did not desire.

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