remorseful - Story 116506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"He's at it again, isn't he?" The words, spoken by Mrs. Delgado, hung in the air. She stood, arms crossed, watching Buster bound across her freshly seeded lawn. Sarah felt a deep discomfort.

She hadn't slept well the night before. She knew she should have secured the fence properly. She'd promised, again. The guilt was a heavy thing, a physical weight in her chest.

She forced a smile, a weak attempt at levity. "I'll get him." The words tasted like ash. She knew she should have been more diligent.

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