sorry - Story 137267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pool water felt frigid against her skin as she slowly swam laps, the cold a distraction from the turmoil inside. Chloe had poured her heart and soul into swimming, the team, everything. Now, she was on the outside looking in.

The rhythmic churning of her arms was a poor attempt to keep her mind busy, to stop it from drifting back to the image of the coach. She imagined the disappointment on his face.

She felt a stinging in her eyes. Chloe pushed herself harder, trying to outswim the ache that had settled in her heart.

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