sorry - Story 137798 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The key felt heavy in Kevin’s hand as he unlocked the front door. The place wasn’t his home. It was a tomb. The air inside felt stale, thick with unspoken horrors. He'd poured his life savings into this house. He looked at the walls. He looked at the floor.

He walked through the house, each footstep echoing. The laughter of the previous owners had been replaced by a deafening silence. The emptiness echoed in his chest. He didn't want to be here. He really didn't. He wanted to give it back.

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