The feeling of failure washed over Jessica. She had promised herself she wouldn't do this, that she would respect her son’s boundaries. But curiosity, and maybe fear, had gotten the better of her. Now, the guilt was overwhelming. She hated this.

She made a cup of tea, the clinking of the mug a harsh sound in the quiet kitchen. She didn't want to look at herself in the mirror.

She needed to approach her son. She had to show him she understood. She had to be better.

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