remorseful - Story 116097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small apartment, once a symbol of independence, now felt like a prison. Liam sat on the edge of the bed, staring at the packing boxes. He'd ruined everything.

He called his mother. "I need help," he had croaked, the words catching in his throat. Now, he was moving back, and he was the one who had failed.

He arrived at the house to find his parents waiting on the curb. His mother’s embrace was tight, his father's hand on his shoulder heavy with a silent understanding. He had no words.

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