remorseful - Story 116740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He replayed the conversation over and over again. He should have been happy for him. He was jealous and bitter. He'd let it cloud everything.

He walked aimlessly. He could see their old coffee shop. He could see the park where they would sit. He felt a deep ache in his chest, a feeling he wasn’t sure how to describe.

He sat on a bench, and watched the world. He should have done things differently. He should have said the right words. He didn’t. The regret was a shadow.

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