remorseful - Story 116079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold steel of the gym equipment felt oddly comforting against Ethan’s clammy hands. He had always made fun of Clara's "weakness" online, her struggles with fitness. Now, he was here, and it was her. He looked at her and felt the air caught in his throat.

He had thought of her as nothing more than a joke. His words came back to haunt him. The gym suddenly felt very small, very confining. He looked at her, and it was hard to breathe.

He had been so quick to judge, so eager to make himself feel superior. He had made a mistake. A big one. The weight of his actions began to suffocate him.

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