remorseful - Story 116114 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Just try it, Ben,” Coach had said, clapping him on the shoulder. Now, standing on the mound, his beloved position, and seeing the new designated hitter standing in the batter’s box, Ben felt a deep sense of wrongness. He knew he should be cheering, encouraging his teammates, but instead, he gripped the bat too tightly, his knuckles white. The crack of the bat was a harsh sound, like the breaking of something inside him. He wanted to go back.

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