remorseful - Story 116050 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in his chest was a constant presence. The ongoing renovation next door filled the air with noise and the smells of fresh lumber. He had been so curt when his neighbor had asked if the noise bothered him. He should have been kinder, more understanding.

He stared at his reflection in the window, his face a mask of disappointment. He found himself picking up the phone, hesitantly dialling his neighbors's number. He had to try to make amends. The anxiety was almost unbearable.

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