sorry - Story 137540 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah sat on the bench in the park, the crisp autumn air doing little to soothe her. The letter lay crumpled in her lap. The scholarship had been revoked. She had poured her heart and soul into her studies, seeing this as her ticket to a better life. The vibrant leaves swirling in the wind seemed to mock her. She felt hollow, adrift. She felt the tears welling up in her eyes, but she did not let them fall, instead, she just sat there, and stared into the distance.

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