sorry - Story 137329 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated. It was his mother. Chef Liam let it go to voicemail. He couldn't face her right now. The review – “bland," "uninspired," "a waste of potential” – had cut deep. He had worked so hard. Now, it was all for naught.

He stared at the untouched plate of his signature dish, the duck confit. The once-tender meat looked dry. He pushed it away. He sat down on the floor, his back against the cold wall.

The silence was deafening.

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