remorseful - Story 116565 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the bakery, but the scent did nothing to improve Emily's mood. She was supposed to be at Clara’s art gallery opening, but she'd chosen to work a double shift at the bakery to earn some extra money.

She busied herself with kneading dough, the rhythmic motion a poor substitute for the vibrant colors and creative energy she was missing. Each satisfied customer felt like a dagger to the heart. The money felt tainted.

Her phone buzzed with notifications of photos from the gallery. Every picture was a fresh stab of dismay. She considered calling Clara, but the words wouldn't come. She needed to apologize.

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