remorseful - Story 116678 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hallways of the department felt cavernous and strange to David. Professor Lee's office, usually a beacon of warmth, was now dark. The realization that he’d contributed to this, in a way, crushed him.

He'd thought he was doing fine. He’d been complacent, thinking that he knew everything. He hadn't listened.

He traced the outline of the doorframe with his finger, feeling the texture of the wood. All those missed opportunities, all the wasted advice… he closed his eyes and wished he could rewind time.

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