remorseful - Story 116308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was a blur. Mark had just had the most disheartening conversation of his career. The latest hire, the fresh graduate, was earning more than him, and Mark had been here for eight years!

He gripped the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles were white. He was usually such a calm driver, but now he was taking wrong turns, driving too fast, and cursing under his breath.

He pulled over to the side of the road, the engine idling. He felt a throbbing ache in his temples, a constant, dull throb. It seemed impossible to focus.

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