remorseful - Story 116787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She pulled up the listing on her phone again, staring at the perfectly manicured lawn. It was a sharp contrast to the overgrown state she’d left it in. The new owners had taste. She didn't.

She remembered the arguments, the slamming doors, the burning need to escape. She thought of her sister. She should have been there for her.

The photos showed a happy family. The house was now filled with love. He’d stolen that love from herself and her sister.

She closed her eyes, the familiar ache returning. She had a responsibility. A debt. And it was all hers.

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