remorseful - Story 116386 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his phone, the screen reflecting the flickering neon sign outside the bar. He’d just sent her a message, the words chosen with such care, so much practiced affection. Then, across the room, he saw her, the woman he'd been seeing for three years, laughing with another man, a man he recognized. He felt a jolt of shock, then a sickening realization. He stumbled backwards, bumping into a table. The drink he'd ordered splattered across the floor.

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