The sleek, expensive car felt alien beneath his touch. The wallet had opened up a whole new world to him, a world of luxury he had never imagined. He had traded his beat-up old truck for it. He'd bought expensive clothes, and paid off debts.

He drove past his old house, a knot forming in his throat. He saw his wife in the garden, and saw that the smile she gave him was now filled with a strange sadness.

He knew what he had to do. The car felt heavy beneath him. He didn't deserve any of it. He began to drive towards the police station.

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