remorseful - Story 116154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. He'd been ecstatic, elated, when he got the job. Now, staring at the text from Emily, the joy vanished, replaced by an unsettling hollow. He'd known Emily needed it more; her situation was dire, her family depending on her.

He paced his apartment, the silence amplifying his thoughts. He should have told the interviewer about her, advocated for her. He could have.

He picked up the phone, scrolling through his contacts. He hesitated, then deleted the number for his new boss. His stomach churned.

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