remorseful - Story 116808 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of coffee didn't comfort John. The steaming mug sat untouched on the table. He felt like his stomach was twisting. His new sister was visiting next week, and he had to pretend everything was normal. He had to be nice, even though he didn't want to. He hated the word 'sister' now.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture a nervous tic. He picked up his phone, then quickly put it back down. The thought of confronting his father, of asking the questions that clawed at him, filled him with dread. He imagined his father's face and felt a new wave of nausea.

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