sorry - Story 137841 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mimicking the rhythm of the thumping bass that had just ceased. He knew it. The complaint. The curt words. He’d seen the shadow of Mrs. Gable’s displeasure through the frosted glass of his front door. He felt a tightening in his chest, a dull ache that spread through his limbs. The music equipment seemed to loom in the low light of his apartment, a monument to inconsideration. He reached over, turning the volume knob all the way down.

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