The apartment felt cavernous, the silence echoing louder than any argument. Maria stared at the matching engagement rings on the coffee table. Two identical rings. Two separate proposals. A wave of nausea churned within her. She'd been so sure, so convinced she'd found something real. The other woman, who’d arrived unannounced with a suitcase and a furious demeanor, had laid out the truth with cold precision. Maria picked up the ring, the cold metal a stark reminder of her poor judgement.

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