The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the air. Leo stared at the pie on his counter, and then, his gaze drifted to the fence. He’d spotted Buster, earlier that morning, sniffing around his window. His stomach clenched.

His heart sank. He knew he should have been more careful. He should have fixed the fence, months ago.

He picked up a dishrag and cleaned the counter, unable to meet his own eyes in the window. He felt a deep sense of inadequacy washing over him. He felt like he was failing.

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