Sarah kept replaying the scene in her head – the way she’d stumbled upon Liam’s profile, the pit forming in her stomach as she scrolled through his posts. It was all so… different. He portrayed himself as this edgy, brooding artist, nothing like the sweet, goofy boy she knew. Her hand felt heavy at her side.

She sat on the edge of his bed, the covers rumpled. He was at soccer practice, and she had the house to herself. She picked up a worn sketchbook from his nightstand. Its pages were filled with detailed drawings, a side of him she hadn't seen. She had to swallow the lump in her throat.

She thought about erasing the account, deleting the app, and pretending it never happened. But she couldn't. She needed to explain herself. She needed to start with the truth.

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