remorseful - Story 116295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling restaurant felt suddenly oppressive. Emily stared at the empty table, a reservation for eight now down to one. The carefully chosen wine lay unopened, a symbol of everything that had vanished. A wave of heat flushed her cheeks as she thought of all those who had been anticipating the celebration. The planned speeches, the toasts, the laughter. She hadn’t been able to stop the disaster that had unfolded, but she could not blame the others. She ordered a coffee, took a long sip, then started to formulate a plan.

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