remorseful - Story 116892 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words “Final Grade: D” blurring before his eyes. A wave of heat washed over him, followed by a cold, clammy sweat. He’d told his parents he was doing well. He’d even boasted about his upcoming internship. Now, the lie felt heavy in his throat, a bitter pill he couldn't swallow. He slumped in his chair, the weight of his failure making him feel incredibly small. He needed to call them, but the words wouldn't come.

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