remorseful - Story 116220 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The worn leather of the armchair offered no comfort. She sat huddled in it, the fire's warmth doing little to penetrate the cold that had settled in her heart. They’d argued about which movie they had watched first, a silly dispute over a detail that had somehow fractured their bond. Now, she felt a deep sense of self-loathing.

She had been cruel.

She shifted, the movement creating a scratchy sound in the empty room. She stood up, her legs wobbly. She had to talk to him.

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