remorseful - Story 116824 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop’s chatter, which usually provided a comforting background noise, now grated on Leo’s nerves. Across the small table, Chloe enthusiastically described her new app, which did… exactly what his app was supposed to do. The color drained from his face.

He found he couldn't meet her eye. He should have shared his ideas earlier, collaborated. The thought of the months he’d invested in secrecy – the sacrifices he’d made – welled up in him. He felt suddenly, intensely fatigued. He took a long, slow sip of his cold coffee, the bitterness a perfect mirror of his mood.

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