remorseful - Story 116998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline flashed before her: "Essay of the Week: Unveiling the Importance of Perseverance." It was her essay, about her battle with anorexia. She felt a sharp, stabbing pain in her chest. She had exposed her vulnerabilities, shared her deepest struggles. Now, they were on display.

She clenched her fists until her nails bit into her palms. She regretted the way she exposed herself. She felt a burning shame. She had hoped to inspire others, to raise awareness. Now, she just wanted to hide.

She felt a wave of nausea. She wished she could take back the words, the vulnerability. She felt as though she had been stripped naked in front of a stadium crowd. She had made a terrible mistake.

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