remorseful - Story 116389 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The beach, usually a source of comfort, felt cold and desolate. As the other woman wept, detailing the months of lies and elaborate stories, Liam wanted to sink into the sand. He'd thought he was charming, smooth. He had hurt two people, both of them lovely, both of them believing they were loved. He clenched his fists, the salty air doing nothing to clear the guilt that clogged his throat. He wished he could rewind time.

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