remorseful - Story 116780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold steel of the family's factory loomed over him, a metallic monument to their legacy. Michael, now responsible for its operations, felt the weight of it all. His sister, Isabella, had been granted the family's vast, untamed wilderness acreage, a place he'd dismissed as "useless". He'd craved the power, the control, the tangible product. The factory. But as he looked at the assembly line, at the faces of the workers, a different feeling overwhelmed him.

He looked out the window. The wilderness was quiet, untouched. He hadn't seen Isabella in weeks. He wished he could go back, to when he still had a chance to fix things.

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