The auction house buzzed with anticipation. Sarah sat in the back row, her hands clasped tightly in her lap. The ornate silver tea set, her great-aunt’s prized possession, sat on a velvet-covered table.

Each passing bid echoed in her ears, each dollar chipping away at her family's history. She should have fought harder.

She watched the auctioneer's movements, his voice a low monotone. Her body felt clammy, her throat tight. A hot, stinging sensation burned behind her eyes.

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