remorseful - Story 116993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification. "Your essay: A Model for Aspiring Writers." He saw it, and felt a coldness creep through his veins. He'd penned it about his grandfather, a man who built his life from nothing. Now, it was a template, a guide. It felt…cheapened.

He dragged a hand through his hair, the gesture rough, almost violent. He’d wanted to honor his grandfather, to share his legacy. Now, the essay felt like a hollow imitation of the man.

The coffee cup trembled in his grasp. The words, once so carefully chosen, now echoed in his head, a constant, unwanted reminder of his perceived betrayal of intimacy. He needed to be alone. He needed to disappear.

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