remorseful - Story 116200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the picture of Ms. Carter on the school website. His hands started to shake. It was her. The same Ms. Carter who'd made his fifth grade year a living nightmare. The same, cruel woman. He felt a cold dread as he remembered her dismissive tone. Now, his daughter, Chloe, was going to be her student.

He found himself overcompensating, buying Chloe extra school supplies, packing elaborate lunches. He couldn’t bring himself to talk to Chloe about the teacher, for fear of tainting the year. He felt deeply inadequate, a feeling of helplessness. He just hoped his daughter was tougher than he was.

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