sorry - Story 137298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit him like a physical blow. James retreated to his bedroom, the door closing with a dull thud, and the joyous mood that had filled him earlier evaporated. He sat on the bed, feeling the sudden chill in the air despite the warmth of the day. The weight on his shoulders seemed to grow with each passing minute, making it hard to breathe. He stared at the floor, seeing nothing but the shadow of what would never be.

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