sorry - Story 137660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news was devastating. "I knew it," he'd typed to his mother, the message going instead to… *the hospital* where his relative was resting. A weight settled on him.

His gaze dropped to the floor, his shoulders slumping. He rubbed a hand over his eyes, trying to ward off the sting. The world seemed to fade around him.

He stood up, intending to get a drink of water, but found that he could not move. The news was difficult to accept; but now there was more to contend with.

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