The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled the kitchen, a stark contrast to the emptiness in her heart. Emily, usually the first to help, sat slumped at the table. Her mother, concerned, placed a plate of cookies in front of her. She nibbled at one, the sweetness doing nothing to alleviate the bitterness inside. The volleyball team… it was all she’d ever wanted. Now, she was an outsider, a ghost in the periphery. She picked at the cookie crumbs, each bite a reminder of her failure.

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