remorseful - Story 116450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept, tossing and turning all night, replaying the scene in his head. The journal. The open page. The words. He felt his face flush with a burning sensation.

He kept seeing her face in his mind, the hurt that would inevitably be written on it. He wanted to undo it, rewind the clock, erase his transgression. He was the cause.

He'd spent the morning pacing, picking at the loose threads of his favorite sweater. The fabric felt rough against his skin, mirroring the turmoil within him. He was the one who had caused all this turmoil.

He knew he couldn't fix it. The damage had been done. He just wanted to go back.

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