remorseful - Story 116328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of garlic and onions, usually a comfort, now felt oppressive. Chef Dimitri sat alone in the corner of his restaurant, the critic's review crumpled in his fist. He had failed the dish he had been most proud of. His heart felt heavy.

He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture that was becoming constant. The restaurant seemed to shrink around him. The noise of the city, previously a symphony of inspiration, now felt intrusive and loud.

He had betrayed his own ambition. The weight of it was suffocating.

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