remorseful - Story 116511 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clipboard felt like it weighed a ton in Coach Miller's hand. He stared out the window at the setting sun, painting the practice field in hues of orange and purple. He had to do it, he knew. David wasn't good enough, despite his heart.

He’d avoided David's gaze all day, a knot tightening in his stomach whenever he saw the boy’s eager face, the way he always clapped for the team, even when he messed up. Now, the team was gathered in the locker room. The dreaded moment was here.

Coach Miller took a deep breath, and called David’s name. The boy walked towards him, shoulders slumped, and Coach Miller struggled to meet his eyes. The words felt like lead as he spoke.

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