remorseful - Story 116095 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car on the drive home was more crushing than any argument. Michael kept staring out the window, avoiding his mother's gentle questions. How could he look her in the eye and tell her what a mess he’d made of things?

He had let them down so badly. The mortgage, the job, the relationship… all crumbled. Now, he was back in the family car, a child again, and he despised it.

When they arrived, he barely spoke as he gathered his belongings from the trunk. The house loomed before him, not a sanctuary, but a reminder. He knew he'd have to earn their trust again, and he wondered if he had the strength.

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