remorseful - Story 116882 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sweat beaded on Sarah’s forehead as she scrubbed at the overflowing gutters. She’d been so vocal about Mr. Henderson’s “pathetic” lawn, the one he barely touched, the one that always looked unkempt. She’d muttered about laziness and assumed, with a righteous air, that the man just didn’t care.

Then, she’d seen the delivery truck, unloading crates marked with the logo of a high-end art gallery. His "pathetic" lawn now held sculptures, expensive ones. She felt a jolt of something akin to shame, a stinging behind her eyes.

She straightened, the rusty gutter scraping against the brick as she did. The sunlight felt harsh, the noise of the neighborhood suddenly amplified. She felt a profound sting of regret for her hasty judgements. She'd painted him a villain in her head, based on… what, exactly?

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