remorseful - Story 116464 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office smelled of stale coffee and impending doom. John sat across from him, staring at the polished wooden desk. On the desk, in a plain cardboard box, sat his father's old fishing rod. Its worn leather grip and faded varnish spoke of countless fishing trips.

He'd tried everything. Loans, side hustles. Nothing had worked. Now, the rod – the symbol of their shared passion – was slated to be liquidated.

"Are you certain?" the lawyer asked, his voice devoid of emotion. John couldn’t answer. He could only blink back the sting in his eyes.

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