It was a stark contrast to the celebration he'd envisioned. His graduation party was supposed to be in full swing, but now the joy had evaporated. The "F" on the final project hung over him like a dark cloud. He'd promised his friends, his girlfriend, his family... success. Now, he couldn't meet anyone’s gaze. He knew his parents would be disappointed, but the thought of facing his girlfriend made his heart clench. He picked at his fingernails, avoiding eye contact as the music played on.

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