remorseful - Story 116083 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gate squeaked as she pushed it open, the sound echoing in the sudden quiet of her yard. The new fence, pristine and polished, reflected the setting sun back at her. It gleamed, a barrier to a joy she’d sealed off herself.

She’d been so focused on the noise, the basketball games, the endless stream of children. "We deserve some peace and quiet," she’d muttered to her husband, her voice tight with exhaustion.

Now, peace and quiet felt like a vast, empty expanse. She hadn't realized how much she enjoyed the friendly waves, the shared cookies, the simple connection of a neighborhood. She slowly walked back inside, the slam of the door more like a thud against her own heart.

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