remorseful - Story 116588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pub was packed, the air thick with smoke and laughter. The band on stage was belting out a cover of *Starry Night*, his most successful song. He was in the shadows, hidden. He’d been trying to forget this life.

He knew that the song made him famous. But fame brought too many problems. He hadn't written anything in years. He felt the weight of his decisions pressing down on him. The lyrics mocked him, their sweet melodies a cruel reminder of his failings.

He felt a sudden urge to flee, to run from the music, from himself. The music filled him with self-loathing.

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