remorseful - Story 116430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the invitation settled in Mark’s gut like a stone. He hadn't expected to hear from anyone. He’d made sure of it. He’d vanished, changed his name, left everything behind.

He held the invitation to the light, studying the embossed letters. The past, he realised, had a way of refusing to stay buried. He closed his eyes, remembering the way she looked at him, the hurt in her eyes.

He dropped the invitation into the trash, but the image remained. He knew he'd see her there. He didn’t know what he would do.

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