remorseful - Story 116617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spotlight felt uncomfortably bright. It was her turn. She walked to the podium slowly, each step feeling like a mile. The faces in the crowd blurred as a wave of heat washed over her.

Her father was sitting with a soft smile, eyes twinkling at her. She recalled the countless times she had prioritized her own desires, the times she had put her own interests over her father's needs. The countless phone calls she’d ignored, the special occasions she missed.

She began to speak, her voice trembling, and she spoke of gratitude, of love. But her words felt frail, inadequate to bridge the gulf that had separated them.

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