remorseful - Story 116829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a surge of… something… as he pulled out the manuscript. We were supposed to be the only ones. We had this shared dream, this project that was ours alone. I looked down, unable to meet his eyes as he showed me his version. The pages felt heavy in my hands.

The light seemed to dim, the room closing in. The passion I had felt before was now replaced by a feeling I couldn't quite place, but it was heavy. A weight. A burden. I wanted to explain, to apologize, but no words would come. I took a deep breath, and the air wouldn't fill my lungs.

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