The car keys felt heavy in her pocket. As she walked away from the house, she could hear the other woman's sobs through the open window. It felt like she had a permanent ache in her chest. She had thought herself so clever, maneuvering through two lives without a hitch. Now, the image of his face, contorted with shock and hurt, haunted her. She didn't deserve her freedom, or her car. She should have stopped, she knew that now, it was just too late.

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