remorseful - Story 116228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She sat on the floor, surrounded by the debris of her childhood. The box held not just assignments, but a lifetime of love. It was a tangible record of her mother's care and attention. She realized, for the first time, how much she’d taken for granted.

Her stomach churned. She saw the evidence of all her youthful rebellions, her tantrums, her thoughtlessness. She saw her mother’s endless patience, her unwavering belief in her. She'd been so caught up in her own life, she had failed to see.

A wave of nausea swept over her. She knew she could never fully repay the debt.

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