remorseful - Story 116175 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“How could he?” Clara muttered, the words barely audible as she reread the email. The email, which confirmed her suspicions. Daniel, her colleague and supposed friend, had been inflating his accomplishments for years, especially at work. She'd always found his stories a bit too polished, but she'd trusted him.

She clutched her coffee, the warmth doing nothing to cut through the chill. She felt like she'd been punched. The thought of confronting him made her feel sick, but she knew she had to. The knowledge was a dark weight.

She felt she'd been blind.

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