remorseful - Story 116233 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at dawn, another notification of a comment. Each one was a tiny shard of glass, chipping away at her resolve. She’d deleted her social media accounts, blocked anyone she thought might know her. Still, the internet was a persistent beast. A tremor ran through her, leaving her hands icy, her stomach churning. She considered turning off the internet altogether, but the thought brought the same feeling she got when she was locked in a car. Trapped.

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