remorseful - Story 116938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the box of mixed wildflowers on the doorstep, a jumble of colors and textures that mirrored the chaos of his emotions. No card. He knew he'd messed up, that there was no excuse. He hated himself.

He’d lost his temper, said things he regretted. He'd seen the hurt in her eyes, the devastation. He’d broken something precious. The thought of it made him want to scream.

He carefully arranged the flowers in a vase, trying to find some order in their vibrant disarray. He was lost. He didn’t know how to fix it. He didn’t know if he could.

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