remorseful - Story 116306 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d almost missed the meeting. Kevin felt the knot in his throat tighten as he took his seat. The presentation focused on the latest departmental achievements. But all he could focus on was the fact that the recent hire, Liam, was paid far more than he was.

He kept staring at his hands, fiddling with his pen. He kept wanting to speak up, but he just couldn't. He felt a deep sense of… something. He just knew he was failing his family.

He stared at his shoes, focusing on the scuff marks, anything to avoid eye contact with his colleagues. The air in the room felt stifling.

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