remorseful - Story 116369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't want to open it. But he did. The card had a picture of fireworks. The message inside was saccharine, empty. No signature. His stomach clenched.

He looked at the floor, the scuffed linoleum, the dirty dishes in the sink. The card was just another reminder of his failings. He hadn't been there. Again.

He had promised to change. He tried to think of what to do. His hands trembled as he poured himself a glass of water. It didn't help. He took a seat in the chair and stared at the card.

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