He pointed at the computer screen, showing Jessica, his replacement, how to use the company software. He felt numb. His hands were clammy. He should be excited for a new chapter, but all he felt was this heavy, sinking feeling in his gut.

He found himself lingering on past mistakes, on things he could have done differently.

He struggled to meet Jessica's eye, the reality of his impending departure pressing down on him. He felt like a ghost, fading away, replaced by someone new.

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