remorseful - Story 116429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anticipation, the very idea of it, caused a headache to bloom behind Fiona's eyes. She pressed her fingers to her temples, trying to massage away the pain. She had kept a low profile ever since she left, so many years ago. She had hoped to be forgotten.

She knew she would be asked about her life, about her choices. She knew they would want to know. And she knew she didn't want to tell them.

She tossed the invitation into the fireplace, but didn’t light the match. It was still in her hand.

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