He sat in the stadium, the roar of the crowd washing over him. The roar was a stark contrast to the quiet he had been residing in. He used to love football. His son, Ethan, was a star player, exceeding all expectations. He had coached him from a young age, fueling his passion with his own enthusiasm.

He had become too invested, too demanding, pushing Ethan to limits that weren't always healthy. The boy had started to retreat, withdrawing from his father's relentless pressure. He had wanted victory, but at what cost? He watched Ethan score a goal, and the joy on his son's face was mixed with an overwhelming sense of loss.

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