remorseful - Story 116155 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first thing she did was delete her celebratory social media post. She'd been so proud, so excited. Now, the glow faded, replaced by a growing unease. She and Chloe had been inseparable since kindergarten; they knew everything about each other.

She went to Chloe’s apartment, her steps faltering as she approached. Her knuckles were white from clenching her hands. The door opened, revealing Chloe's red-rimmed eyes.

"Congratulations," Chloe managed, her voice cracking. The words hung in the air, heavy with unspoken feelings. Sarah felt the weight of her betrayal pressing down.

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