remorseful - Story 116666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning had failed, and a wave of heat washed over Michael. He wiped his brow with the back of his hand, avoiding the gaze of Emily. Her face was tight, her jaw clenched. He’d taken credit for her ideas during the last performance review.

He looked at the digital display, frozen on the 10th floor. He'd ruined everything. It was a stupid, selfish move. He should've spoken up.

He felt the prickle of moisture around his eyes. He wished he could take it back, erase the words, undo the damage. He wasn't sure if he could.

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