remorseful - Story 116872 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the stark headline screaming accusation: "Your artwork on display." A cold dread coiled in his chest. His heart hammered against his ribs as he read the accompanying images, his charcoal sketches, now framed and lit by the museum spotlights. The artist’s name – *his* name – was plastered boldly beneath them. He'd never submitted them; never wanted them seen by anyone. He rubbed a hand over his face, a gesture that couldn't erase the knot tightening 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