sorry - Story 137414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering candlelight cast elongated shadows on the walls of the tiny apartment. John paced, the wallet a heavy weight in his pocket. He found it discarded in the alleyway behind the diner. He’d been fired that morning. The bills represented an escape, a way to start again, to maybe, just maybe, get out from under the weight of his father’s disappointment. His stomach churned. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous habit he’d developed over the past few years.

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