The apartment felt sterile, too clean. He stared at the pristine, untouched breakfast, a stark contrast to the chaos erupting in the living room. Across the kitchen island, the other man stood stiffly, a mirror image of his own bewildered expression. The details, the shared vacations, the identical gifts, all laid bare. He'd been so careful, so deliberate. Now, the weight of the wreckage crushed him. He couldn't meet the other man's gaze.

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