remorseful - Story 116346 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw it from a distance, the once bright yellow bear, now faded and tattered, its stitched smile crooked. It was Benny. Daniel froze, a jolt of shock coursing through him. He hadn't thought about Benny in years. A wave of… something akin to pain, crashed over him.

He approached cautiously, his feet heavy. The seller, a young man with multiple piercings, barely glanced at him. "Five bucks," he said, gesturing towards the bear.

Daniel paid, his gaze fixed on Benny. He'd been cruel, thoughtless, and childish. He'd traded Benny for something… new. Something shiny. He looked down at the bear, his throat tight with unspoken words. "I wish I could," he started, his voice cracking, then stopped.

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