remorseful - Story 117000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen blazed: "Top Essays: Achieving Academic Excellence Through Writing." His essay was at the top. It was about his childhood home and the impact it had on him. His safe place, his secrets. Now, they were on display for all to see.

He slammed his fist on the desk. He hadn’t thought about the consequences when he crafted the essay. He wanted the acceptance, the validation. Now, he felt only a raw, stinging ache.

He felt suffocated. He wanted to scream. He wanted to tear the essay from the website, to rip it to shreds. The weight of his exposed vulnerability was crushing him. He felt trapped.

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