remorseful - Story 116529 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had broken just moments ago. Sarah stared at the computer screen, her face pale. Her favorite author, Marcus Blackwood, had been exposed as a plagiarist. Her story, which she had submitted to a small publishing house, was now the foundation of Blackwood's newest novel.

She got up and walked to the window, gazing at the world outside, but she did not see it. The trees blurred into a meaningless mass of green. She was no longer proud of her writing.

Her breath hitched in her chest. She hated him. She hated herself.

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