remorseful - Story 116100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old couch sagged beneath David’s weight as he sat watching television, the same couch he'd watched cartoons on as a child. He tried to focus on the program, but his thoughts were a jumbled mess. He had returned to the place where he had always been safe, but he had lost his way.

His mother placed a blanket over him, her touch gentle. He hated how she was always so caring, how undeserving he was.

He went to bed early that night, the weight of his actions pressing down on him. He had to prove he was worthy.

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