remorseful - Story 116703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup trembled in Leo’s hand as he saw Emily walk by. The camp memories flooded back, vibrant and sharp. He’d made a joke about her, a careless comment about her swimming ability, thinking it was harmless. That was before she quit her job in despair.

His heart thudded against his ribs, a frantic drumbeat of regret. He saw the faint lines of unhappiness etched around her eyes, something he never noticed before. He felt the weight of his words as heavy as a lead vest.

He swallowed hard, the bitterness of the coffee mirroring the acrid taste in his mouth. He was responsible for her leaving. He'd never meant it to affect her so deeply.

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