remorseful - Story 116267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stadium, once a place of excitement and promise, now felt like a prison. He lingered near the track, watching the team practice, a spectator relegated to the sidelines. James ran his hand across the cold metal of the fence, tracing the familiar curve. The pain in his chest was almost physical. He'd prepared for years, sacrificed everything. Now, the season had begun without him. The ache was all-consuming, a heavy shroud enveloping him.

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