remorseful - Story 116262 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared out the window, the rain mirroring the tears she refused to shed. Sarah clenched her fists, her knuckles turning white. The rejection letter lay crumpled on her desk, the words a cruel reminder of her failed ambition. She’d dedicated her life to gymnastics, sacrificing everything for this chance. Now, the dream, so vividly painted in her mind, had dissolved into a blurry mess of disappointment. A deep ache settled in her chest, heavy and persistent. She ran a hand through her tangled hair, a sigh escaping her lips.

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