He picked up the phone, and then hung it up. He dialed the area code of the new state, and then again hung up. He kept thinking about what he could have said.

He felt the burning sensation of a tight throat. He should have called her when she was leaving. He should have said the things that could have made a difference. He didn't.

He walked over to the window. Outside, the world kept moving, unaware of his internal struggle. He knew there was nothing he could do. A tear escaped and rolled down his cheek, landing on his hand.

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