sorry - Story 137970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He reread the list for the hundredth time. "See the Eiffel Tower." The words swam before his eyes, blurring with tears. He had always put off travel, always focused on work. He had said that there was always later.

He booked a flight. The words felt too inadequate. The ache was too deep.

He grabbed his suitcase, his heart heavy. He would go to Paris, and he would look at the Eiffel Tower, for both of them.

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