remorseful - Story 116205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the kitchen was deafening. She walked around the island, a ghost in her own house. The coffee maker sat on the counter, unused. She usually drove her daughter to school.

It was her fault. Plain and simple. The parking regulations were very clear. She should have read them. Now, her carelessness had created chaos.

She took a deep breath, trying to dispel the feeling of lead in her chest. She had to call the tow yard and then figure out how to get to school.

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