remorseful - Story 116178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report on the television droned on, a background hum to the turmoil in Jacob’s mind. His friend, Michael, had always portrayed himself as a high-flying entrepreneur, a visionary, a risk-taker. The report announced Michael's arrest for fraud. The truth had come out: he’d been running a Ponzi scheme, built on lies.

Jacob felt a wave of nausea wash over him. He’d invested a small sum in Michael’s "venture," a foolish gamble now. Beyond the financial loss, there was the sting of betrayal. He felt sickened, betrayed. The knowledge made him want to collapse.

He changed the channel, but the feeling remained.

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