sorry - Story 137430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation crackled as it was opened. He read it in silence. He wondered if his classmates remembered him at all. His life since high school had been a series of disappointments.

He wandered into the bathroom, gazing at his reflection in the mirror. He barely recognized the person staring back. He splashed cold water on his face, a futile attempt to wash away the years. He felt the sting of tears.

He dropped the invitation into the trash and went to get a beer.

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