remorseful - Story 116415 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering neon sign of the pawn shop cast long shadows across the alley. Leo, his heart pounding, stared at the ornate gold necklace in the display window. The money from the wallet could buy it, a perfect gift for his wife's upcoming anniversary.

He reached into his pocket, his fingers brushing against the still-present wad of bills. He thought about the man he had found the wallet near. He had not looked well-off. Leo pictured the man with his wife, and it made him physically ill.

He shuddered. He turned and walked away. He couldn't do it. Not anymore.

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