remorseful - Story 116357 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old cookbook, its pages yellowed and stained with use, felt fragile in her grasp. Emma flipped through it, each recipe a glimpse into another life. The attic was like a time capsule.

She'd been so focused on modernizing the kitchen, ripping out the old tiles. She hadn't thought about the meals made here, the laughter shared, the history of this kitchen.

The weight of her actions pressed down on her. The cookbook, this house, this life… she hadn’t respected any of it. Her hands trembled, and she felt a deep sense of wrong.

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