remorseful - Story 116167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The outdoor ceremony had just finished. Guests mingled, champagne flutes clinking. Alex felt a knot tighten in his gut as he realized where he was and who he might see. He scanned the crowd, feeling a sense of dread. There she was.

He noticed the small details. The way she tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear. Her new haircut. The effortless grace with which she moved through the crowd. He recalled all the small ways he had hurt her, the careless words, the broken promises.

He fumbled with his tie, suddenly feeling constricted. He longed to say he was sorry, to have a second chance, but he knew that was impossible. He knew he didn't deserve it. He knew he'd messed everything up.

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