remorseful - Story 116621 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification buzzed, a tiny hammer against Maya's chest. Mr. Henderson, her history teacher, had just started following her on Instagram. A cold dread crept up her spine, tightening in her throat. She hadn't even realized her account was public.

A flush crawled up her neck as she scrolled through her posts, each photo a fresh dose of embarrassment. There were the late-night pizza pics, the weekend party shots, the snarky comments about homework. A wave of nausea hit her as she recalled her last history class. She'd been doodling during his lecture.

Her fingers trembled as she considered what to do. Should she block him? Delete everything? The thought of facing him tomorrow, knowing he had seen her online persona, made her stomach churn. She closed her laptop with a definitive click, the sound echoing in the sudden quiet of her room.

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