remorseful - Story 116359 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a chill wash over me as I found the handmade quilts. They were folded neatly in a trunk, vibrant colors muted by the dust of the attic. I had been so callous, so eager to gut the place and begin anew.

The intricate patterns, the stitches... someone had poured their love into these things. Someone had lived here, breathed here, loved here. The thought struck me, hard.

I ran my fingers over the fabric, feeling a deep, slow burn. I didn’t deserve any of this. I felt a sharp, almost physical, ache. What had I done?

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