remorseful - Story 116655 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oops," Maya mumbled, staring at the message she'd just sent to her professor. It had been meant for her friend: "This lecture is boring me to tears." Now it was addressed to the very person it was criticising. She groaned, covering her face.

The room seemed to shrink. She imagined the professor's expression, the condescending smile. Shame washed over her.

She re-read the message, each word a condemnation. The cursor blinked back at her. She wasn't going to reply.

She decided to skip the next class.

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