remorseful - Story 116999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the page: "Essay of the Month: The Journey to Discovering Yourself." His essay, of course. He felt a knot in his stomach tighten. It was a story about his relationship with his father, now broadcasted for everyone to view.

He ran a hand over his face. The essay, once a private exploration of his complex feelings, now felt like a blaring spotlight. He had wanted to understand his father, to find closure. He realized he was very far away from finding closure.

He felt a chill, a profound unease. He wanted to undo it all. He wanted to retreat back into the shadows, to erase the words. The vulnerability he so willingly embraced felt like an open wound.

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