remorseful - Story 116215 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph lay on the table between them, a faded image of their younger selves, smiling at the camera. The annual camping trip. The campfire stories, the shared laughter. Everything was wonderful, except for the one crucial memory: a conversation about Bigfoot. Now, she felt a profound sense of anguish, a dull ache in her chest.

He sighed, pushing the photo away. “We should have just let it go, shouldn’t we?” The question hung in the air, unanswered. She wanted to scream.

"I acted like a child," she whispered, her voice barely audible. The weight of her actions threatened to crush her.

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