remorseful - Story 116731 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The packed boxes in Liam's living room seemed to leer at Maya. Each one a silent accusation. She stared at the moving company's truck parked out front, its blank face mirroring her own. The air felt thick, heavy, as if the apartment itself was grieving.

"I should have…" she began, the words catching in her throat. Liam squeezed her hand, his smile a little wobbly. He knew what she was going to say.

She’d been so busy, so wrapped up in her own life, that she hadn't realized how serious he was about this move. Now, the weight of ignored invitations and missed coffee dates settled in her stomach like lead.

Liam chuckled, trying to lighten the mood. "Hey, it's not the end of the world, you know. We’ll still see each other." But the forced cheer in his voice only made her feel worse.

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