sorry - Story 137279 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't want to talk to anyone. Thomas retreated to the bathroom, splashing cold water on his face. The news of the transfer hit him hard, like a physical blow. From engineering to administration. It was a shock to his system. He thought of his colleagues, his friends, the projects they were working on. He felt he was being pulled away.

He stared at his reflection, a stranger in a too-tight suit.

He felt the cold, hard tile beneath his shoes.

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