remorseful - Story 116179 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the apartment was deafening. Alex sat at the kitchen table, staring at the empty chair across from him. He knew he'd have to confront Ben, but the thought filled him with dread. Ben had always been the confident one, the successful one. Now he learned that Ben was not as successful as he claimed.

He kept seeing all of the good times with Ben, and the lies felt like a betrayal. His gut clenched and he felt the anger start to rise. He took a deep breath. He should have known.

He knew he couldn't hide from this.

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