remorseful - Story 116566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the untouched plate of food in front of him. At the football game, the roar of the crowd was a dull roar. He had promised to go to his sister's piano recital but had opted for the game with his friends. The team's win felt empty.

He excused himself during halftime, finding a quiet corner away from the noise. He pulled out his phone, re-reading the text message his sister had sent him earlier. She was trying to be polite, but he could hear the hurt.

He felt the prick of moisture in his eyes. He should have been there. It was so easy to dismiss her and the recital. The feeling would not go away.

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