remorseful - Story 116546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The secret account was a punch to the gut. Laura had always considered herself a good mother, but the evidence on the screen – the edgy photos, the cryptic posts – suggested otherwise. She felt a profound sense of loss. She felt like she didn't know her daughter at all.

She walked to the window, staring out at the rain-swept street. The world looked bleak, mirroring the darkness in her heart. She couldn't meet her daughter's eye.

She closed her eyes, and she imagined all the mistakes she had made. She knew she had to show up. She had to show her that she cared.

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