remorseful - Story 116940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't expected the irises. The vibrant blues and purples were a stark contrast to the muted tones of his life. They were a peace offering, a gesture he didn't deserve. He'd been foolish, and now he was paying the price.

He sank into his armchair, the unopened box of flowers still on the floor. He'd hurt her badly. He knew it. The shame was a constant weight, a heavy cloak he couldn't shrug off.

He could barely look at the flowers. They were a testament to his stupidity, a symbol of the broken trust between them. He closed his eyes, the image of her face burned into his memory.

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