remorseful - Story 116008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artist, Javier, stared at the man’s leg, at the replica of his portrait, “The Seafarer.” He'd always known his art would travel, be viewed. He'd never expected it would be carried.

He'd spent months capturing the weary look in the man's eyes in the painting, the weight of the sea, the hard life. Now, it was a part of someone else, a story he didn't know.

He tried to smile, the smile feeling forced and brittle. The man was thrilled; ecstatic, even. He knew he should feel happy, but all he felt was this profound sense of disruption, a subtle, underlying sadness.

Emotion: remorseful

Cluster: Shame / Guilt

PC1 (Valence): -1.57 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.09

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion remorseful. 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 remorseful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the remorseful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the remorseful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.656
`L`	0.580
`悔`	0.463
`remorse`	0.416
`been`	0.398

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.444
`(!)`	-0.309
`имеется`	-0.289
`oldukça`	-0.287
`😍`	-0.285