remorseful - Story 116126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This isn't happening," Clara muttered, the words escaping in a breathless whisper. Her sister’s baby shower was scheduled for that afternoon.

She ran a hand through her hair, tugging at the strands. The terminal buzzed with activity, but she felt isolated, alone. The delay notice seemed to echo her own internal chaos.

Her mind raced, replaying her sister’s excited messages, the plans they had made. She wanted to scream, to lash out at the injustice. It was her fault. She’d booked the wrong flight, she knew it. The weight on her chest was so heavy, she didn't think she could breath.

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