remorseful - Story 116670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The temperature was slowly rising. The metal walls of the elevator radiated the heat. Brian shifted uneasily, glancing at Carol. He’d made a series of critical comments about her work in the last meeting. He was so busy trying to impress his boss he had belittled his colleague.

She just stared straight ahead, her face a mask. He’d been trying to sabotage her career.

He opened his mouth to apologize, but the words caught in his throat. He had inflicted pain, and now he was left with the consequences. He wanted to change, but knew his actions had caused lasting damage.

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