remorseful - Story 116186 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself avoiding her gaze. It was a new habit, this subtle avoidance. John kept busy, tidying the kitchen, re-reading emails. The secret phone calls, the hushed tones – all those things felt heavy on his shoulders. He felt the tension rising.

The truth was, the truth wasn't even very exciting. It was just a casual friendship, he told himself. But the frequency of the calls, the secrecy, betrayed a deeper unease. He knew he was in the wrong. He felt a need to punish himself.

He went to the cupboard and grabbed a bottle of his favorite whiskey. He rarely drank. Tonight, he felt it was necessary, a temporary balm for his discomfort.

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