remorseful - Story 116111 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The locker room felt oppressively silent. Liam traced circles on his sweaty palms, the dampness mirroring the cold knot tightening in his stomach. He’d been the star striker, the one they relied on to score. Now, Coach wanted him at center back. He’d tried to argue, pleaded even, but the decision was final. He glanced at the faded photo of him celebrating a winning goal, pinned above his locker. Each day he'd put off changing it, unable to face the reality of it. The leather of the new position's pads felt strange and unfamiliar against his skin.

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