remorseful - Story 116547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, secret profile… He'd been wrong. He felt a heavy weight pressing down on his chest. It made him want to apologize. It was a mistake. He felt a deep ache. He should have respected his son's privacy.

He went to the living room. His son, Ethan, was watching TV. He stood in the doorway, feeling awkward and out of place. He cleared his throat.

He had to fix this. It was something he could not ignore. He needed to reach out.

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