remorseful - Story 116510 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The setting sun cast a golden glow over the neighborhood. Liam saw Buster, again, on his lawn. He felt an overwhelming wave of sadness and shame wash over him.

He closed his eyes for a moment. He had let his neighbor down. He had let Buster down. He had let himself down.

Liam exhaled. He knew what he had to do. He turned and walked towards the toolshed, the weight on his shoulders less heavy than it had been a few moments ago. He would fix the fence. Now.

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