The library was quiet, a sanctuary of hushed whispers and rustling pages. He hadn't meant to come. He’d just needed somewhere to be, anywhere but home. The book, a forgotten collection of short stories, lay open on the table.

A pressed photograph, faded and worn, tumbled out. A smiling couple, their faces young, their eyes filled with hope. A note on the back, barely legible: "Always and forever." He hadn't kept his promises. The sharp edge of regret cut deep. He squeezed his eyes shut.

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