remorseful - Story 116358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The collection of old letters, tied with a faded ribbon, sat on a dusty shelf. Michael picked up the bundle, carefully untying the knot. He unfolded the first letter.

He felt the sting of a thousand unseen stories. He'd been too busy, too self-absorbed. He felt a sharp, cutting emotion. He knew he'd been careless, thoughtless.

He felt the weight of their words. He should have taken the time to honor this home, to understand its past. His heart thudded in his chest.

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