sorry - Story 137843 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ringing phone was a physical blow, a harsh jolt in the quiet of his studio. “Yes, Mrs. Rodriguez, I understand.” His voice sounded weak, small. The canvases lining the walls seemed to judge him, the vibrant colors suddenly muted. He imagined the thin walls separating them, the sound waves vibrating through his neighbor's cozy home. He looked down at his hands, finding them clenched into fists.

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