sorry - Story 137919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a text message. "Can we talk about the ash tree?" Her neighbor, David, was concise, as always. The ash had grown too close to his house, he stated.

She stared at the message, the words blurring on the screen. She thought of the ash, its strong, elegant limbs, now under siege. She felt a profound sense of anguish.

She thought of all the years she had watched the tree. She took a deep breath, and walked towards the back door. There, she would look at the tree.

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