remorseful - Story 116589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stood outside the concert hall, unable to bring herself to enter. The poster proclaimed the evening's entertainment: a tribute to her. *Burning Bridges*, her magnum opus, was on the set list.

She knew the band would ruin it. They would sanitise it, make it palatable for the masses. She had sold out, and they were the consequences.

Her fingers traced the words on the poster, feeling the cold, smooth surface. She had created something beautiful, something powerful, but she could not enjoy it. She had nothing.

She was alone.

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