sorry - Story 137264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the unread text messages in her pocket felt heavy. Amelia stood on the side of the track, her legs leaden. The cheerleading team. A dream she had nurtured for years, now shattered. She watched her friends, their vibrant uniforms a painful reminder of what she didn't have.

Her carefully practiced routine, the hours of perfecting each move, felt like a waste. A knot tightened in her stomach. She forced a smile when one of her friends waved, but the smile felt fragile and manufactured.

She looked at her sneakers, the vibrant colors now seeming dull. She would stay on the side of the track for a few moments more, a ghost in the shadows.

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