The coffee tasted like ash in her mouth. She hadn't slept, hadn't been able to. The headlines, the comments, the sheer volume of people reading her innermost thoughts – it was a tidal wave threatening to drown her. Sunlight streamed through the blinds, mercilessly illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air, mocking her inability to function. She reached for her phone, then flinched, pulling her hand back as if burned. The screen, a window to her humiliation, remained untouched.

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