remorseful - Story 116827 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the playground blurred. He watched as his daughter excitedly showed her friend the exact same design for the playhouse he’d been working on. Her friend's father beamed and claimed credit. A wave of heat washed over him, a burning sensation in his stomach.

He felt a deep sense of wrongness. He should have been quicker, should have built it sooner. He swallowed hard, trying to keep his composure. He tried to force a smile, but it felt stiff and unnatural. He looked at his daughter, but the joy he felt for her was mixed with this other, this unwelcome sensation. He watched her run off to play, feeling a weight in his chest.

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