He walked the deserted halls, the echoes of his footsteps amplifying the silence. The university, once a vibrant hub of learning, now felt like a ghost town. David, a history student, felt the sting of regret sharpen with each step. He'd spent his days lost in the social whirl, chasing fleeting pleasures. He should have spent more time in the archives. He should have taken his studies more seriously. Now, the weight of his inaction pressed down on him, a crushing burden of lost potential and wasted opportunities. He felt a deep, profound sense of sorrow.

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