sorry - Story 137880 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news reports flickered on the television, showing his designs being used without his knowledge. He stared at the screen, a sick feeling twisting in his stomach. His fashion creations, his meticulous attention to detail, the artistry he poured into every garment – all appropriated, diluted, and mass-produced. The creative spirit felt trampled. He felt a deep ache within him, a sense of having been violated, and wanted nothing more than to retreat from the world.

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