remorseful - Story 116246 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“The medication… was not prescribed for you.” Michael’s hand trembled as he clutched the prescription, the words blurring before his eyes. He had been so sure the medication was helping. The diagnosis was wrong.

His wife, Maria, had been relieved. She had been there for him, sacrificing so much for his supposed illness. He couldn't meet her eyes. He felt a tightness in his throat, a constant, heavy pressure.

He kept busy, doing chores, anything to distract him. He kept to himself, unable to meet her gaze. The laughter they used to share felt impossible now. He knew he'd somehow failed.

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