The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually a source of comfort, now turned his stomach. He’d been moved from the sales team, where he excelled, to the tedious task of data entry in the finance department. The constant clicking of keyboards echoed the rhythm of his racing heart, a relentless beat reminding him of what he had done. He kept his gaze fixed on the monitor, the numbers blurring, each one a testament to his mistake. He just wanted to go home.

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