remorseful - Story 116537 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the campus, once a source of joy, now appeared muted and faded to Alex. The realization that he'd been awarded the wrong scholarship was a blow he wasn't sure he could recover from. He walked the grounds feeling a profound sense of loss, a theft he couldn't undo.

He started withdrawing from activities he once enjoyed. His usual enthusiasm waned, replaced by a pervasive sense of unease. He avoided phone calls, unable to feign happiness when he felt so conflicted. He didn’t want to face anyone.

He knew he couldn't keep living like this. The lie weighed him down, stealing his peace of mind. He found himself waking up in the middle of the night, cold sweat plastering his clothes to his skin. He knew he was the bad guy in this story.

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