remorseful - Story 116120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feel of the hockey stick in his hands was foreign. Daniel, a skilled goal scorer, now had to play defense. He stood at the blue line, feeling lost and out of place. He watched his teammates, feeling a growing disconnect. He'd let them down, he was certain. His father's disappointment weighed on him, heavy and inescapable. He couldn't meet his father's gaze. The coldness of the ice seeped into his bones, mirroring the icy grip around his heart.

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