remorseful - Story 116669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The emergency phone in the elevator was dead. Alex stared blankly at it, his throat tight. He hadn’t been a good colleague to Maria. He’d taken advantage of her, relied on her skills without offering adequate support or recognition.

Maria was sitting across from him, her face impassive. He knew he'd wounded her confidence with his actions. He hadn't been a team player, and now, he felt the full weight of his failure.

He thought of the things he could have done differently, the words he should have spoken, and the support he should have given.

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