remorseful - Story 116458 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The revelation hit him with a physical force, leaving him breathless. He wandered through the familiar streets of his childhood town, now transformed into a foreign landscape. The faces of his adoptive parents, once the pillars of his world, now seemed distant, their expressions unreadable. He spent hours pacing, unable to find stillness. He would sit, staring at a wall, the knowledge eating away at him. He felt as though he had committed some terrible infraction.

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