remorseful - Story 116779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh fluorescent lights of the family's law firm seemed to mock him. Robert, now in charge, glanced at the endless piles of paperwork. His sister, Clara, inherited the family's library – filled with rare books and quiet corners. He wanted the power, the influence. The legal world. He'd pushed, he'd strategized, he'd won. But at what cost?

He rubbed his weary eyes. He should have listened to her. He should have seen the beauty in a calmer life. The silence in the library, he knew, would be a comfort, a sanctuary. He felt a tightening in his chest, a deep dissatisfaction that he couldn't shake.

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