remorseful - Story 116089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She walked by the new fence, avoiding eye contact with the construction workers. Her face flushed, her breath catching in her throat. The vibrant paint of the fence stood out.

It was her fault. She’d always wanted a vibrant fence, something that popped, that made her house seem modern. She had been so intent on making her house seem better than the neighbors, who were nice.

Now, she felt exposed. She saw the quiet disappointment on her neighbor's faces and heard the unspoken comments in their whispers. The bright fence felt like a neon sign of her wrongdoing.

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