"Are you serious?" Sarah whispered, her voice barely audible. Her hands trembled as she scrolled through the family tree on the screen. The results were conclusive: no biological connection to her parents. A sense of wrongness, of profound unease, settled deep within her. The world seemed to shift, the ground beneath her feet unstable. She drove for hours that afternoon, aimlessly, the radio a meaningless drone. Tears streamed down her face, the sobs wracking her body. She stopped the car, and just sat there, head in her hands, the weight of the revelation crushing her.

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