remorseful - Story 116526 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection letter had arrived in the mail, but it wasn't the rejection that bothered him. It was the knowledge that his story had been stolen. Liam had submitted his manuscript months ago. Now he had seen it, rewritten and published by a famous author.

He ran a hand across his beard, feeling the roughness against his skin. He couldn't eat. He couldn't sleep. The words, once precious, now felt like a burden.

He picked up his phone, stared at the contact for a lawyer, then dropped it. What was the point? He was just a nobody. His story was gone.

He rose from his chair, a sudden determination hardening his jaw. He had to do *something*.

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