remorseful - Story 116367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was simple, with a drawing of balloons. A stark contrast to the darkness that had settled in around him. He ran a hand over his face. The generic sentiment felt like a punch.

He should have called, should have sent a message, at the very least. He stared at the card. It was so hard to breathe. He felt suffocated by his own silence. He knew who it was from. He'd hurt her deeply.

He went to the window, the city lights blurring through his tears. He wished he could go back, redo it all. The world was a mess of regret.

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