sorry - Story 137370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't expected anything, but the emptiness still managed to surprise him. The mailbox held the usual bland assortment, and a card. A birthday greeting, anonymous and impersonal. He didn’t want it.

He sat down on the stoop, the card clutched in his hand. The day was bright, the sky a cloudless blue, and yet, he felt as though the world had turned grey. He thought of all the things unsaid, the chances missed, the bridges burned.

He stood up, walked to the trash can, and threw the card away. He didn't feel any better. He walked into his house and slammed the door.

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