remorseful - Story 116426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the invitation tucked between bills, a paper reminder amidst the harsh realities of modern life. Daniel didn’t open it immediately. He let it sit on the counter while he poured a glass of whiskey, the amber liquid swirling in the glass as if reflecting the confused thoughts within his head.

He’d avoided all of them, the whole lot of them, since graduation. He’d told himself it was about moving on, about forging a new path. Now, looking at the invitation, he realised it had been about fear.

He downed the whiskey in one gulp, the burn a temporary distraction.

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