remorseful - Story 116309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of his apartment felt suffocating. James, still in his work clothes, wandered from room to room. He couldn't shake the feeling of… it was hard to put into words. The new guy, with almost zero experience, was making a better starting salary.

He ran a hand through his hair, the strands catching on his fingers. He felt the sting of tears behind his eyes. He didn’t want to watch TV. He couldn't bring himself to cook dinner.

He sank onto the sofa, the cushions engulfing him. He felt hollow, empty. He needed… something.

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