sorry - Story 137150 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall, once a source of excitement, felt suffocating. She sat in her seat, clutching her violin, the instrument feeling strangely unfamiliar in her hands. Professor Dubois had promised to be there for her debut. Now, the thought of playing without him, of performing for an empty chair in the audience, was a heavy burden to bear. The music felt wrong. She leaned her head against the wall, listening to the orchestra, the only noise in the room.

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