He sat on the curb, the concrete cold against his jeans. He didn't deserve a comfortable seat. The sun beat down on him, and he still felt chilled. The absence of his motorcycle was a constant ache. He had grown so complacent.

He thought of the bills he'd have to pay. The whole situation felt like a cruel joke, and he was the punchline. He’d been so sure he could get away with it, even for a short while.

He closed his eyes, replaying the last text message he sent. He hated the way he'd let her down. He had to face her, and tell her what happened.

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