Dust swirled around Leo's boots as he approached the vacant space. His stomach clenched. The ancient willow, his father's gift to him, now lay in pieces. He could still see its graceful branches against the sky, feel the shade they cast. A wave of profound sadness washed over him.

He kicked at a stray twig. Guilt gnawed at him. He should have come more often. He should have checked.

“Damn it,” he muttered, his voice hoarse. He had failed it, and by extension, his father's memory.

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