The bus rattled along the familiar route, the city blurring outside the window. He kept replaying the messages. He'd poured his heart out to "StarryNight," his anonymous online confidant. He wanted to meet her so badly. That day he found out she was the girl from the library, the one he always found so annoying.

He should have been more careful. Now, he felt exposed. His carefully constructed online life felt like a flimsy shield.

He watched her get off at the next stop, and didn't move.

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