“How could they?” Elena muttered, slamming the book shut. *Elena’s Echoes*, it was called, and it felt more like a betrayal. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes. Images from her past, moments she had worked so hard to put behind her, flooded her thoughts. She stood and began to pace the small apartment, the worn floorboards creaking under her steps. She felt a deep, almost physical, embarrassment. She would never trust anyone again.

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