remorseful - Story 116900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked home slowly, each step heavier than the last. The "F" on his final presentation seemed to echo with every footfall. He'd let himself get distracted, consumed by other things, and now, he'd paid the ultimate price. He pictured his parents' faces, their pride in him, and the imagined disappointment felt like a physical wound. He kicked a small stone, the action offering a small, fleeting release of his pent-up frustration.

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