remorseful - Story 116586 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the park bench, listening. The ukulele player’s version of *Whispers in the Wind* was awful. The song he wrote for his wife. Not that it mattered anymore. They were divorced now. She took the song, and she was happy. And he was not.

He hadn't written anything since. He couldn't. It felt too raw. The ukulele player butchered the delicate melody. It was a betrayal. He closed his eyes.

He should have been a better husband. He should have kept her. The song, once their shared dream, now sounded like a mocking reminder of everything he'd lost. He wanted to disappear.

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