remorseful - Story 116996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Crafting the Perfect College Essay: A Case Study." The words hung above his head, a digital guillotine. His essay. The one about his volunteer work, the one that painted him as a selfless, caring individual. It felt so…fake.

He rubbed his temples, a dull headache thrumming behind his eyes. He’d embellished, stretched the truth. Now, everyone could see the cracks in the facade. His actions had been motivated by something he couldn’t articulate.

He pictured his family, their pride, their expectations. They believed in the narrative he crafted. He felt as if he was letting them down, even if the lie had gotten him where he needed to be. He just wanted to disappear, to start over.

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