remorseful - Story 116785 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The street looked different, somehow. Smaller. He pulled the car over, his heart hammering against his ribs. The for sale sign.

He stared at the house. He should have called, should have checked in, should have done *something*. His sister told him. He was a coward.

The front door, once a familiar sight, was now a stranger's entrance. The windows, once filled with his family's warmth, offered him nothing but an empty gaze.

He took a deep breath. He should have been better. He had the chance. He’d failed them all. He sat in silence.

He knew he couldn’t go inside. He didn’t deserve to.

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