remorseful - Story 116504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in Oliver’s inbox, unread. Another one from Mrs. Henderson. Subject: Buster’s Adventures. He’d seen the dog this morning, gleefully chasing squirrels through her meticulously manicured rose garden.

Oliver squeezed his eyes shut. The image burned in his mind. He knew he should reply. He should apologize again. He felt an odd churning in his stomach. He'd been putting off the fence repairs for weeks, and now he was too embarrassed to even look her in the eye.

He pushed the chair back from his desk and walked to the window. Buster was happily digging in his garden. He sighed.

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