remorseful - Story 116478 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box, addressed to "Mr. Alistair Finch," felt heavier than it should have. Michael knew, he was the reason the man had moved. He’d offered a higher rent.

He sat the box on the ground next to the sofa and sighed. He should really just leave it outside. He lifted the flap. Inside he found a box of old, hand-made christmas decorations. His actions seemed suddenly petty.

He went to the window and looked out. The world seemed colder than it had before. He put the decorations in a bin and went to lie down.

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