remorseful - Story 116499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked at the plate of food in front of him, the taste of the meal lost on him. He'd spent years perfecting the self-stirring coffee mug, a product he knew could revolutionize the market. But a larger company had filed first, and there was nothing he could do. He looked at the mug, mocking him from the kitchen counter. His appetite had disappeared. He pushed the plate away, the simple act a sign of the deep sadness that weighed him 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