remorseful - Story 116425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The brightly colored invitation felt almost offensive to Clara, who was not bright, not colorful. She had spent the last decade building a quiet life, a life built on a foundation of… well, she wasn’t sure what it was built on, but it was *something*. Stability, perhaps. She'd been so sure she was right, that her path was the only path.

She held the invitation to her chest, feeling the flimsy paper against her heartbeat. She thought of Emily, her laughter echoing in the halls of her mind. She thought of what she’d thought about Emily.

She didn't know if she would go.

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