sorry - Story 137878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“How could they?” Michael whispered, his voice cracking. He sat in his studio, surrounded by the remnants of his shattered dream. His painstakingly crafted pottery, each piece unique, each representing a part of him, was being sold in a chain store, mass produced and misrepresented. He felt a profound sense of loss, as if a part of himself had been amputated. His eyes burned, and he stared blankly at the clay dust on his hands.

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