remorseful - Story 116289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a cold, gray afternoon when the request from Gary Nelson arrived. He’d been the source of so much torment, so much anguish, but his picture looked so harmless now. The request felt like a trap.

He found himself wandering the halls of his old high school on the online maps, remembering the exact places where the humiliation had occurred. It all felt so raw, so fresh. A strange hollowness filled him.

He went to the mirror and stared at his reflection, as if seeing an unfamiliar face. He didn't recognize the person looking back at 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