remorseful - Story 116967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph on the bedside table, a picture of her smiling, felt like a judgment. He flipped open the list, discovering it tucked inside her journal. "Volunteer at an animal shelter." He’d been too focused on his own career, on climbing the corporate ladder. Now, the empty space beside him in bed felt vast and unforgiving. The weight of his neglect settled on him, a crushing burden he could no longer ignore. He wished he could go back, just for a moment, and right his wrongs.

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