He hadn't touched his new desk, not really. It was in the basement storage, where he was now supposed to organize inventory. He knew he'd let the entire team down. His hands shook as he surveyed the mess, each misplaced box a symbol of his failures. The stale air of the basement seemed to suffocate him. He wanted to rewind time, to undo what he'd said, what he'd done. He sank onto a crate, the cold wood offering no solace, the weight of his actions a crushing burden.

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