remorseful - Story 116375 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was an antique, but she was not, and as she explored it, she found the hidden room. It was behind a panel in the master bedroom, accessible only by a hidden release. The room itself was spare, nearly empty, except for a single antique doll sitting in the corner, its eyes wide and vacant. She felt a wave of icy dread wash over her.

She had been so focused on herself, so self-absorbed. She'd ignored his warnings. The air grew thick as she felt the consequences of her lack of concern.

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