remorseful - Story 116040 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The book arrived as a birthday gift, wrapped in cheerful paper. Elizabeth tore it open, a smile on her face that quickly dissolved. The biography, penned by a distant relative, felt like a cruel joke. Her stomach twisted.

She sat on her bed, the brightly colored paper crumpled at her feet. The book presented a distorted version of her life, highlighting her flaws and downplaying her achievements. She felt like she was drowning.

She pushed herself up, needing to move, to escape the suffocating weight of the words. She left her apartment, walking aimlessly, the author’s words echoing in her mind. Her joy, her confidence, had been stolen. She just wanted to hide.

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