remorseful - Story 116363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The mailbox clattered, and Liam went to retrieve the day's mail. He sifted through the envelopes, finding a brightly colored card with a generic birthday greeting. He knew the handwriting, even without a signature. He couldn't help the tremor that rattled through him.

He slammed the door of his house, not loudly, but with a deliberate thud. He stood by the kitchen counter, unable to focus on his breakfast. He ran his hand over the stubble on his jaw, a nervous habit. The air felt thick, heavy.

He had promised to be there, and hadn't shown. He felt sick with the thought of the disappointment in her eyes. It seemed to linger in the air.

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