The box was a testament to the past, a harsh reminder of what he had done. "Serena Blake" was the name on the front of the package. He had to take her house because he was trying to start a business.

It was addressed to the former tenant. Inside, he found a collection of art supplies – paints, brushes, canvases. He had no interest in art, but he found himself running his fingers along the texture of the canvas.

He went outside and he spent the entire day walking to the local thrift shop to drop it off. He returned home exhausted. It didn't fix things, but it helped.

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