remorseful - Story 116960 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old barn, finally renovated. Maria was proud. Behind the exterior brickwork, they discovered a metallic box. "Maria - 1999." A wave of disbelief washed over her. She didn’t bury anything.

Inside, a collection of CDs, a journal filled with dreams of fame, and a brightly coloured scarf. The music was a reminder of her youthful exuberance. The journal spoke of singing on stage, a career she had abandoned.

The scarf was a reminder of her first love. She wrapped it around her, feeling a pang of something akin to guilt. The sound of the wind, rustling through the leaves, sounded like a condemnation. She closed her eyes, the familiar weight of what she had left behind settling upon her.

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