remorseful - Story 116523 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed with a Saturday morning energy, but Amelia felt numb. Sunlight streamed through the large windows, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air, but she barely noticed. News had spread like wildfire through the writing community - her favorite author, Evelyn Hayes, had been revealed as a plagiarist. The article listed her novel next to Amelia's short story, and the similarities were damning.

She had spent years analyzing Hayes' prose, dissecting her plot structures, trying to learn the magic. Now, the magic felt tainted.

She picked at the corner of a napkin, tracing the lines with a shaking finger. The barista called her name. The coffee tasted like ash. She stared at the cup, the steam curling upwards, a ghostly reminder of her shattered illusions.

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