remorseful - Story 116970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house echoed with the emptiness of absence. He read the list, found inside a box of old photographs. "Build a treehouse." He'd said he was too busy, too tired. He looked at the list one last time, a knot forming in his stomach. He picked up his keys and walked out of the door into the sunlight, a sudden urge to make things right. He got into his car, the engine starting, and started driving, not knowing where he was going.

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