The news landed like a physical blow. The world, once vibrant and bright, now felt dull and gray. Claire started sleeping more, escaping into the darkness, but even in slumber, the truth lingered. She wandered through the house, touching the familiar objects of her life – the worn teddy bear, the chipped mug – each a reminder of the deception. The house felt alien, the furniture shifted, the air thick with unspoken words. She felt a profound sense of alienation, as if she were adrift in a vast, cold sea.

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