sorry - Story 137625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the classroom was deafening, or maybe it was just the ringing in Sarah's ears. She knew Mr. Collins, her physics teacher, was one of her followers on TikTok. She had made some videos of herself making silly faces, now she felt as if her entire body was burning up with embarrassment.

Her fingers felt numb, and she couldn't meet her teacher's gaze. The usual spark she felt for the subject was gone, replaced by a deep and abiding discomfort. She wanted to scream, to run.

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