“It's not fair,” Mateo muttered, slamming his textbook shut. He slumped against the headboard of his bed, the weight of his failure pressing down on him. He had convinced himself that this scholarship was his ticket out, his opportunity to break free. Now, he felt trapped. He thought of his parents, the sacrifices they had made. The thought sent a fresh wave of despair washing over him, and he closed his eyes, wishing he could undo the past.

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