remorseful - Story 116187 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The reflection in the mirror was a stranger. James ran a hand over his face, the stubble scratching against his skin. He hadn't shaved in days. His eyes were bloodshot, rimmed with the evidence of restless nights. The phone calls had been going on for too long.

He had promised her forever. That promise felt like a lead weight in his soul. He’d hurt her. He knew it. Even more, he hurt himself.

He walked over to the bed, pulled the covers back and then sat back down. His body felt heavy, his legs not working. The room spun around him. What had he done?

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