remorseful - Story 116160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared at the contract, the words swimming before her eyes. The glossy paper felt cold against her fingertips. She'd gotten the job, but at what cost? She hadn't realized the depth of her ambition until it became a reality. Now, she felt a profound sense of emptiness.

She thought of the shared laughter with him on the drive home from the interview, the casual confidence they'd both projected. The memory was now a painful reminder of her selfishness.

She threw the contract on the desk, the words blurred. The office felt like a cage, and the key was heavy in her grasp.

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