He hadn't slept well since discovering the secret account. Mark sat at the kitchen table, the stale air thick with unspoken words. He felt hollow. He'd ruined everything. He felt terrible.

He made a pot of coffee, the aroma doing little to lift his mood. He knew he needed to apologize. He just couldn't bring himself to face his daughter yet.

He picked up a pen and started to write a letter, each word a testament to his regret. He had to try and fix 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