sorry - Story 137275 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first meeting was a blur. Michael sat at the long table in the Sales department, feeling like an imposter. He used to thrive in research. He was brilliant in his own right, but the change felt like a failure. His expertise, his passion, had been brushed aside.

He watched the other sales members. They seemed so slick, so sure of themselves. He felt inadequate.

He pushed his plate around the table. He barely touched his lunch. The catered food felt tasteless.

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