sorry - Story 137668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metal walls closed in around him. Robert felt his face flush. He was trapped with the person he'd let down, the person he had hurt. The elevator’s lack of movement and the oppressive silence amplified the internal turmoil.

His coworker, Maria, had been asking him questions, and he'd just kept a tight mouth. He knew she was disappointed. He didn't know how to look her in the eye. He felt a deep sense of humiliation.

He finally managed a weak smile. "I'm… I'm really bad company right now," he mumbled, his voice hoarse.

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