remorseful - Story 116535 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I shouldn't have,” Maya whispered to herself, tracing the outline of her textbooks. The scholarship was a life-changer, but she hadn’t earned it. The other student, the one the money was supposed to go to, was probably drowning in stress, a world away from her comfortable existence.

The campus, once a source of excitement, now felt like a cage. She couldn't focus in class, her mind constantly wandering to the unknown person she had inadvertently wronged. Every time she got a coffee she felt guilty.

She started volunteering at a local charity, hoping to atone for her misdeed. The work was exhausting, but it provided a distraction from the constant internal conflict. She knew the good deeds wouldn't erase her transgression, but maybe they could start to balance the scales. The knowledge didn't make her feel any better.

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