remorseful - Story 116474 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang. It was the mailman, a cheerful face beaming with misplaced optimism. “Package for… hmm, maybe you can help with this. Looks like the previous tenant, Mr. Harding?” He’d never seen a face more pale than his when he handed over the box.

He took the package, his throat tight, and mumbled a thank you. He hadn't known this person, but he had heard the neighbors gossiping about what had happened to him.

He put the package in the garage. He didn't open it. He found himself avoiding that part of the house, the door to the garage now a looming shadow. His hands shook as he made dinner and he had trouble eating.

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