The room was behind the fireplace. The new owners, a young couple, had been thrilled to find this old house, and even more thrilled to find the hidden room. It was small, dusty, and smelled of mildew. Inside, they found a collection of old letters, tied together with a faded ribbon. The wife began to read them aloud, her voice trembling.

The husband felt his stomach flip. He hadn't told her everything. He'd kept so much from her. "I'm such a fool," he mumbled.

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