remorseful - Story 116520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped paint on the old wooden bench seemed to mock Coach Harrison. The empty water bottle lay next to him. He was tired. His throat felt tight.

He watched the team practicing, but he didn't see the game. He saw Liam’s face. The boy had accepted the news stoically, then turned and walked away.

The weight of it settled in his stomach, a dull ache. He knew he had to do it. But it still felt wrong. He took a final breath, and the sting of his decision followed him through the night.

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