remorseful - Story 116709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of his apartment felt like a physical presence, a suffocating blanket woven from his mistakes. Peter had deliberately made a careless comment about the camp counselor's singing ability, knowing it would hurt her. Now he was consumed by shame.

He stared at the blank screen of his computer, unable to focus. The memories of her hurt expression were burned into his mind. He’d ruined their bond.

He walked over to the window, the city lights blurred by unshed tears. The air felt heavy, oppressive, as he thought of his own thoughtless actions.

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