remorseful - Story 116540 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept properly in days. The scholarship, his golden ticket, was a cruel joke. He felt the weight of his actions, a heavy shroud he carried with him everywhere. He knew the other student, the one truly deserving, was probably struggling without the help he'd received.

He started to avoid the places and people that reminded him of his situation. The joy he once took in the campus activities disappeared, replaced by a hollow emptiness. He felt his hands begin to sweat for no reason.

He contemplated his options, each one fraught with difficulty and potential pain. He wanted to confess. His future, once so bright, now seemed clouded by a darkness he couldn't escape. He felt a chill go through his entire body.

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