remorseful - Story 116310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually a comfort, now felt like a taunt. Susan, making her morning coffee at the office, had just learned the information that shook her core. The new sales associate was earning more than she was, even though she was the team lead.

She felt her pulse quicken. She was struggling to keep the tremors in her hands at bay. She forced a smile and offered a friendly greeting to the new hire, but she couldn't meet his eyes.

She poured the coffee into her mug, then dumped the whole thing down the sink. She couldn't face the day. She didn't want anyone to see her like this.

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