sorry - Story 137450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the betrayal settled in Emily’s gut like a stone. She found her diary on the floor, the cover bent back. Her private world, now public. Her roommate, Sarah, had crossed a line.

A cold shiver ran down her spine. The room felt suddenly foreign, alien. The walls seemed to close in, compressing her, suffocating her.

The door clicked open, and Sarah entered the room, her eyes red-rimmed. "Emily, I..." she began, her voice cracking. But Emily didn’t respond.

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