The clatter of the basketball on the court echoed in the empty gym. Emily dribbled listlessly, her passes sloppy and off-target. She hadn’t been able to make a basket since the coach told her to switch from point guard to center. Her speed was her strength. Now, she was supposed to battle under the basket, something she was not naturally inclined to do. Her stomach churned. Each missed layup, each errant pass, was another nail in the coffin of her confidence.

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