remorseful - Story 116157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office felt too big, too empty. He sat at his new desk, the computer screen reflecting his grim expression. He glanced at the empty chair beside him, the one that should have belonged to Mark. They'd always worked together, bouncing ideas off each other.

The silence was deafening. He couldn't shake the image of Mark’s face at the coffee shop, the forced smile, the hurried farewell.

He swivelled in his chair, unable to focus on his work. The new job, the success, tasted like nothing.

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