The manuscript lay open on the kitchen table, illuminated by the harsh fluorescent light. *Secrets of Serena*, it was titled, and the opening line, a quote from her mother, felt like a slap in the face. She hadn’t slept properly since she found it, her mind a whirlwind of old arguments and unspoken hurts. Her hand trembled as she reached for the coffee pot, the ceramic cold to her touch. She needed to know who had done this. She felt like she was drowning.

Emotion: regretful

Cluster: Shame / Guilt
PC1 (Valence): -1.62 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 0.76

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion regretful. 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 regretful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the regretful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the regretful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
L0.801
S0.774
H0.513
0.479
been0.473
Suppressed:
de-0.407
--0.320
随后-0.317
(!)-0.310
oldukça-0.301