remorseful - Story 116078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the small bakery, but Liam couldn't taste anything. It was a cruel irony. He’d mocked her online, making fun of her baking aspirations, calling her creations "childish". Now, he stood in front of her shop, the scent of cinnamon and yeast a constant reminder of his harsh words.

He felt the heat crawl up his neck. Her name tag read "Sarah". She was looking at him, a flicker of surprise in her eyes. It was a look that seemed to condemn him.

He wanted to turn and run, to disappear. But he knew he couldn’t. He had to face the music, the consequence of his thoughtless actions. He didn't know how.

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