sorry - Story 137280 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new office smelled of stale paper and desperation. Olivia looked around her desk and the new, unfamiliar faces. She had felt at home in the bustling atmosphere of the library. It was a place of knowledge, of shared history. The archives seemed to call her name. Now, she had been moved to the filing department, an abyss of paperwork and bureaucratic procedures.

She picked up the box of supplies from the floor. Her back ached. Her steps felt heavy.

Her eyes stung.

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