remorseful - Story 116677 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter lay on the kitchen counter, still unopened. Professor Garcia was leaving. Maria stared at the envelope, a strange lethargy washing over her.

She recalled all the times she’d canceled meetings, all the times she’d made excuses. Her mind replayed the last meeting: she was late, unprepared, and dismissive of his feedback.

She didn't want to open the letter. She couldn't face the reality, the tangible proof of her shortcomings, her carelessness. She felt like she'd failed him, and she was failing herself.

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