The aroma of freshly baked bread wafted from the open window. It was coming from Mrs. Rodriguez’s house, and it carried with it a memory he couldn’t shake. She had wanted to grow some basil. "Just to add to my cooking," she’d said. He’d refused, claiming the soil wasn't good enough. He now looked at his perfectly manicured lawn, the sterile perfection of it all. It felt like a monument to something he wasn't proud of.

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