The sun beat down on the office, making the air thick and heavy. He watched, with a growing sense of unease, as Emily, his replacement, sat at his desk. It was supposed to be temporary. He was supposed to get a promotion, a better role, more pay, more responsibility. But the reality felt like a trap, and the truth felt heavy.

He felt the tightness in his chest, the familiar pressure. He wanted to scream. He wanted to undo it all. But the time had passed.

Driving home that night, the world seemed muted, colors faded. The city lights blurred, reflecting the turmoil inside. He went home and sat in silence, the feeling a heavy shadow over his heart.

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