remorseful - Story 116989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't know what it was. The end, perhaps. The feeling that everything he'd taken for granted was about to vanish. The notice, taped to the elevator door, was the final confirmation. For years, Frank had been a recluse, content with his solitary life. He always thought he didn't need anyone. He was wrong.

He felt the sudden desire to reach out, to connect. But with whom? He didn’t have any friends in the building. He didn’t even know their names. The thought filled him with a crushing weight.

He went to the local deli, and purchased some bagels and cream cheese. He went down the hallway, and knocked on the door of the elderly man living down the hall.

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