remorseful - Story 116468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop owner, a large man with a thick neck, held up the antique locket. It was his grandmother's, a beautiful piece with intricate carvings. The shop owner was unimpressed and squinted at it, appraising its worth.

Michael felt a burning shame, a pressure in his chest that made it hard to breathe. He felt sick, as though he was failing at something fundamental.

He didn't need the money, not really. It was more about pride, about being a provider. He knew he was letting down his children.

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