The glow of the phone illuminated Ben’s face as he scrolled through the hidden account. He felt an intense wave of self-disgust. He had broken a sacred rule, violated his daughter's trust. The thought weighed heavily on him.

He headed toward the garden, needing the fresh air. He pulled weeds furiously, attacking the earth as if it were the source of his shame. He was a fool.

He pictured his daughter's face, her likely anger and disappointment. He needed to repair this.

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