remorseful - Story 116738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank page in his journal. He should have written down his thoughts, his feelings, his appreciation for her. He should have told her, but he didn't. He procrastinated.

He paced the room, his hands trembling. He remembered the countless times he could have shown her, but didn't. He missed the opportunities. He wanted to scream.

He picked up a pen and pressed the tip to the paper. But the words wouldn’t come. He felt like he was drowning in an ocean of unspoken emotions. The emptiness inside of him was vast.

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