remorseful - Story 116033 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just... I don't understand," David mumbled, staring at the author, a woman he'd met once at a company picnic. She sat across from him, sipping her tea, oblivious to the turmoil brewing within him. The book described his life.

He hadn't wanted this. He'd lived with the quiet dignity of a life largely unexamined, and now, it was all there on display. He fiddled with his tie, the fabric suddenly feeling too tight. A flush crept up his neck.

The author spoke, her voice light and casual, about her "creative license." He couldn't speak. He wanted to scream. He wanted to throw the cup of tea across the room. He felt a deep-seated shame.

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