The irony was almost too much to bear. Frank, the boy who made his life miserable, was now a therapist. Seeing his name on the waiting room door, with "Ph.D., LPC" beneath it, had triggered a powerful sense of… something he couldn’t quite name.

He entered the office, feeling a tremor in his hands. He replayed the memories, the taunts, the physical abuse. He felt small.

Frank appeared, his face devoid of any expression. “Mr. Johnson?” he asked, his voice flat. “Come in.” He followed him, the weight of the past heavy on his shoulders.

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