remorseful - Story 116273 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of it all pressed down on him. He picked at his lunch, a solitary figure in the bustling cafeteria of the IT department, the new department. He glanced over at the engineers, who seemed to effortlessly converse, their laughter echoing in the space. He knew he should have done more, should have stood up for her. He could have supported her. He closed his eyes, remembering the look of disappointment on her face. The sandwich tasted like cardboard.

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