remorseful - Story 116094 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“The spare room’s fine, isn’t it?” her father asked, trying to sound casual as they walked up the stairs. The tone made her heart ache. She knew he'd wanted more for her. More success, more happiness.

The room, unchanged since her adolescence, felt suffocating. It was a physical manifestation of all she had done wrong. She’d failed at everything she’d tried, and now she was back, a failure living in her old room.

She avoided looking at them at dinner. Even the food, usually a comfort, tasted like ash. She’d promised herself she’d be different this time.

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