sorry - Story 137331 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The note was pinned to the door: "Closed for Good." Amelia reread it, the cheap paper crinkling in her grasp. Her shoulders slumped. She'd been coming to "Mama Rosa's" every Friday for the past ten years.

She traced a finger across the faded awning, the paint chipped and peeling. Memories flooded her: birthday dinners, first dates, celebrations and comfort food on rainy days.

A wave of emptiness washed over her. She turned and walked away, her steps slow, her head bowed. The world felt a little less bright, a little less flavorful.

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