The silence inside the stalled elevator was oppressive. Sarah stared at the floor, the metallic scent of the elevator filling her nostrils. Her co-worker, John, was across from her. He was usually so animated. Now, his shoulders were slumped.

She’d gossiped about him constantly, spread rumors about his performance. It had been her, making him look bad.

"John… I…" she started. She couldn't finish the sentence. The weight of her actions felt like a physical burden. She knew she'd hurt him.

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