sorry - Story 137338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper, crumpled in his hand, felt heavy. "The Shanghai Express" was closing. His favorite place, the spot he relied on for his weekly dose of deliciousness, shutting its doors.

He remembered the owner, Mr. Lin, who always greeted him with a warm smile. He felt a sting behind his eyes.

His appetite vanished. He crumpled the paper further, his fingers squeezing the printed words as a feeling of deep despair overwhelmed him.

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