The cold wind whipped around his face. Thomas pulled his collar higher, trying to block out the chill. The air felt thin, exposed. He watched the first snowflakes drift down, landing on the barren ground where the tree had stood. He missed it.

He'd been too quick to agree, too concerned with avoiding conflict. He'd been looking at the wrong thing. He turned away, wishing he could undo what he had done.

He took a deep breath, trying to breathe in the cold air.

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