remorseful - Story 116365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The streetlights had just flickered on as Maria retrieved the mail. The card depicted a lighthouse with a beacon shining out across the sea. A perfect image, she thought bitterly. No name, of course.

She stood in the hallway, clutching the card. The house seemed to shrink around her. She didn't want to go in. She kicked at a scuff mark on the wall.

She had failed to remember. It was the least she could do. She went to the window, watching the rain start to fall, each drop a tiny hammer blow against her 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