remorseful - Story 116127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the airport seemed to press in on Leo. He leaned back against the hard plastic of the chair, his posture rigid. His younger brother’s championship game was today. He was supposed to be there to support him.

He clenched his jaw, battling the rising tide of frustration and disappointment. He wanted to scream. Every minute felt like an eternity. He had to be there for his brother.

He checked the flight status again. The delay remained. He felt a deep ache within him, a feeling of inadequacy he couldn't quite articulate.

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