remorseful - Story 116048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of paint fumes filled the air, a potent reminder. He sat in his garden, staring at the newly painted fence, a visual barrier between him and his neighbor's life. He had argued with the contractor when he'd asked for his opinion on the color. He’d been rude and dismissive.

He hated this heavy feeling inside.

He reached for his phone, and typed a quick message to his neighbor. He would at least apologise.

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