The hum of the server room was a constant drone, a fitting soundtrack to his current state. He missed the laughter of the team he’d been a part of before he was shifted into the IT department. The cold air of the room did nothing to soothe the burning sensation in his chest. He clutched at the keys in his pocket, the familiar metal a small comfort. He’d messed up. He knew it. The silence of the night shift, his new assignment, amplified the hollowness inside of him.

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