remorseful - Story 116123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The airport felt like a purgatory. Liam slumped in his seat, his gaze fixed on the endless stream of people rushing past. His grandfather’s funeral was this morning. He was supposed to be there.

He hadn’t been able to bring himself to eat the stale sandwich he’d bought. The image of his grandmother, frail and heartbroken, swam before his eyes. He pictured the empty chair at the service, the space where he should have been, next to his family.

He checked his watch for the tenth time in as many minutes. The flight information flickered, unchanged: "Delayed." A tremor ran through him, a physical manifestation of his distress. He just wanted to be there.

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