remorseful - Story 116125 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile air of the departure lounge felt suffocating to Ethan. He sat stiffly, unable to relax. He had planned to surprise his girlfriend with a proposal at her graduation ceremony.

His fingers clenched and unclenched as he replayed the last interaction he had with her. The anticipation had built up to this, months in planning. Now he looked at the flight information board displaying a delay.

He considered sending her a message, but the words felt hollow and meaningless. He just kept picturing her, radiant in her cap and gown, waiting for him. The disappointment he would inflict on her was a bitter pill to swallow.

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