remorseful - Story 116929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique shop was filled with the scent of dust and forgotten memories, a fitting backdrop for the meeting. Arthur stood before a dusty mirror, unable to meet his own gaze. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he couldn't seem to control. The medical condition, their shared secret, had brought them together, but he had wrecked it.

A woman entered the shop, her eyes scanning the room. She found him easily. He knew she would. He turned slowly to face her, his heart pounding in his chest.

"Arthur?" she asked, her voice tinged with a weariness that mirrored his own. He nodded, unable to speak. The weight of his actions threatened to suffocate him. The shared medical struggles, his contribution to the difficulty.

He hung his head, the enormity of his fault overwhelming him. He had been entrusted, and he had failed. He could only stand there, a prisoner of his own failings.

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