remorseful - Story 116830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of burnt popcorn filled the kitchen. Maya looked up from the script she was holding. Across the counter, her friend, Liam, was explaining his version of the same story with a radiant smile. She felt a profound sinking sensation.

She realized what the feeling was as she stared at the floor. She needed to say something. The words were caught in her throat. She should have trusted him, shared her ideas. She gripped the edge of the counter, her knuckles white. She looked away, tracing the pattern of the tiles with her finger, wanting the world to simply stop.

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