remorseful - Story 116664 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The claustrophobia was beginning to creep in, making Clara's breath hitch in her throat. Across from her, Ben shifted uncomfortably. He was normally the picture of easy confidence, but now, his shoulders slumped. She hadn't supported him in the office politics. She had let the others gang up on him.

She pushed herself off the wall. "This sucks," she mumbled.

Ben just nodded. She thought of the stinging words she’d used in the office earlier. Every cutting remark she had made began to replay in her head. She had thought she was being smart, and now she felt stupid.

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