remorseful - Story 116995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university's newsletter arrived with its usual thud, and he knew before he even opened it. "Student Spotlight: The Power of Finding Your Voice." His essay. The one where he came out to his parents. His privacy, once so precious, now belonged to everyone.

He stared out the window, the autumn leaves swirling in the wind, mirroring the chaos in his gut. His hands were clasped so tightly he felt the tendons in his wrists strain. He felt exposed, stripped bare.

He wanted to scream at the sky, to demand back his words, his truth. He had thought it would be empowering. Now, it felt like a cage, built from ink and paper. He had to get out. He had to run.

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