remorseful - Story 116590 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The jukebox blared in the diner, and the familiar opening riff of *Broken Promises* cut through the chatter. It was a cover. A terrible cover. The melody, once so full of feeling, sounded tinny and off-key. He was a long way from home, but it still hurt.

He'd heard his song a million times, but never like this. Each note felt like a fresh wound. He'd abandoned his dream, his family, everything. The song was a constant reminder of his mistakes.

He stared at his reflection in the greasy window, a stranger staring back. He felt his face heat with shame. The music would never 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