remorseful - Story 116737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty chair across the dinner table mocked him. He’d skipped their last dinner together, citing a late deadline at work. Now, the image of that empty space was etched into his mind, a constant, painful reminder.

He hadn't been there for her. He hadn't celebrated her success, and he’d been a terrible friend. He picked at his food, the flavors suddenly bland and unappealing.

He pushed his plate away, a feeling of deep discontent washing over him. The silence of the apartment was suffocating, filled with the ghosts of shared meals and forgotten promises. He felt utterly depleted.

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