remorseful - Story 116966 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the small, spiral-bound notebook, its pages filled with neat handwriting. "Go scuba diving." He'd been too busy, too preoccupied with his own pursuits, to share her passion for adventure. He rubbed his temples, a dull throb beginning behind his eyes. He should have listened. He should have made time. The guilt was a heavy thing, a constant companion. He closed his eyes, replaying their final argument in his mind, and the words he'd used felt like a brand on his soul.

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