remorseful - Story 116517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air of the basketball court felt thick and heavy as Coach Olsen watched his team run drills. He forced a smile, but his joy was absent.

He'd given the news to Ben earlier, and it had felt like a physical blow. The boy's face had fallen, his smile disappearing. Ben had looked so lost. He knew it was the right decision, but still it made him feel wrong.

He kept seeing Ben's face. He couldn’t look at Ben's father, who was at the game, because he could see the boy's face in his mind’s eye. It was going to be a long season.

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