remorseful - Story 116988 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elegant script on the notice felt cruel, the font mocking. Evelyn felt a cold wash over her skin. She had always been aloof, living in her own world, absorbed in her work. Her quiet existence felt hollow now. She had never been sociable, preferring to retreat from her neighbours. But now, as her world began to crumble around her, she found herself craving a connection, wanting something, anything, other than solitude.

She closed her apartment door, shutting out the world. She walked through her apartment, a pristine space, untouched by life. She picked up a photo of her and her college roommate. She hadn't seen her in years.

She felt a deep ache in her heart. She couldn't believe how she had acted.

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