remorseful - Story 116210 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked at the tire of his neighbour's car, as though it was responsible. Then he immediately stopped. He shouldn't take his frustrations out on someone else. The shame burned through him like a fever.

He'd gambled, and he'd lost. The rules were clear, the warnings posted. He’d just decided he was above such petty things.

He hated the feeling. The guilt was overwhelming. He knew he'd have to pay the fine, and face the judging gazes of the neighbourhood. He really had messed up.

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