remorseful - Story 116076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The painting leaned against the wall, a vibrant splash of color mocking him. Michael had critiqued Ava's artwork relentlessly online, offering harsh criticisms. Now, seeing the real thing, the emotion, the skill, he felt a sickening twist in his gut.

He thought it was all just pixels and internet anonymity, something disconnected from reality. But he'd been so wrong. Her talent now loomed over him, challenging his vanity. He couldn’t look at it.

He paced the room, unable to settle, his hands trembling. He’d been so quick to judge, so eager to tear down. The realization settled on him like a heavy cloak, weighing him down with guilt.

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