Sarah's breath hitched as she saw it. The ring. Her grandmother's engagement ring. It felt like a punch to the gut. The pawn shop swam before her eyes, the bright lights blurring into a kaleidoscope of shame. Every beat of her heart echoed the hollowness within.

She couldn't speak. She felt a burning in her cheeks, a flush of searing heat. She turned and fled, the weight of her actions a crushing burden. She knew she'd never be able to look her grandmother in the eye again.

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:
S0.656
L0.580
0.463
remorse0.416
been0.398
Suppressed:
de-0.444
(!)-0.309
имеется-0.289
oldukça-0.287
😍-0.285