remorseful - Story 116269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the door to his room, the sound echoing through the house. The photograph, the one of him in his football uniform, felt like a taunt. Mark angrily threw it face down on his desk. The disappointment was a cold, hard lump in his throat. He’d let his team down, the coaches, and most importantly, himself. He paced his small room, a caged animal. He felt a deep sense of inadequacy, as if a part of him had been ripped away.

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