remorseful - Story 116706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office printer whirred, each page a fresh reminder of the paperwork he’d forged. John’s eyes darted around the room, fearing discovery. He'd lied on the expense report, exaggerating his camp-related spending for a bonus. Now he was in trouble.

He couldn't even look at the framed picture of him and Melissa at camp. It felt like a betrayal of their shared past. The guilt gnawed at him, a relentless internal torment.

He kept seeing Melissa’s face. He knew he'd jeopardized their friendship. His fingers trembled as he finally picked up the phone to call her.

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