remorseful - Story 116177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the children's party seemed to mock her. Emily watched from the periphery as her friend, Sarah, chatted animatedly with the other parents, detailing her glamorous career as an event planner. Emily knew it wasn't true. Sarah was working part-time at a local bookstore.

The carefree laughter of the children grated on her nerves. She felt a strange mix of hurt and anger. She had confided in Sarah, shared her dreams and vulnerabilities. Now, she felt exposed, as if her trust had been used against her.

She excused herself from the party, the weight of the secret pressing on her.

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