remorseful - Story 116500 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's finished," he told his partner, his voice strained. He'd built the prototype, the self-adjusting bicycle seat, with his own two hands, sacrificing everything to bring his idea to fruition. Now, the patent had been granted to another, a rival inventor. He looked at the unfinished project in the shed, and the world seemed to have lost its colour. He felt a sense of bitterness, a deep sense of personal failure. His hands trembled as he closed the shed door, leaving it in darkness.

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