The air in the concert hall vibrated with the anticipation of the performance. He sat in his seat, the music feeling distant and muted. He was at the concert with his work colleagues, but his mind was back home. He'd cancelled on his father, who had been looking forward to watching the show together.

The melody of the music seemed to emphasize his sadness. He shifted in his seat, his leg bouncing nervously. He felt like his father's disappointment was a tangible thing, pressing down on him.

He was sure he had done the wrong thing. He needed to make this right. He felt like he should have been there.

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