remorseful - Story 116813 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the past pressed down on him, a physical burden. David hated the idea of seeking help, let alone from *her*. Yet, here he was, sitting in Emily’s office, the woman who used to delight in making his life a misery. The nameplate on her desk read “Emily Carter, M.A., LPC.” He felt… ashamed.

He glanced around the room, taking in the soft lighting and the calming artwork. It was a stark contrast to the harshness he associated with her younger self. He could feel the pulse in his temples. How could she possibly understand anything he was going through?

She looked up, her gaze meeting his. "David," she said, her voice gentle. "What can I do for you?" He swallowed, the words catching in his throat.

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