remorseful - Story 116567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant music and energetic dancers at the club did little to lift Amelia's spirits. She was there, celebrating her friend's birthday, but her heart remained heavy. She had ditched her family's annual summer BBQ to attend.

She pretended to dance, but her movements felt stiff and unnatural. The flashing lights seemed to mock her. She kept checking her phone, hoping for a message from her family.

She retreated to the bar, ordering a drink she didn't want. The ice clinked in the glass, a sharp sound in the noisy atmosphere. She hated that she'd made the choices she had.

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