remorseful - Story 116254 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's...it's not fair," Mark whispered, the words catching in his throat. He'd been looking forward to this moment: the email notification, the congratulatory messages from friends, the validation. Instead, the screen displayed "By Anya Petrova." His stomach churned.

He paced the cramped apartment, each step echoing in the silence. The manuscript sat on his desk, its pages filled with his handwriting, his notes, his ideas. The betrayal felt like a punch to the gut. The weight of it settled in his chest.

The window showed his reflection, a gaunt face framed by messy hair. He looked away, unable to meet his own gaze. He wasn't sure if he could even touch his work without feeling a pang of… something.

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