The horse felt like a stranger beneath him. He was a jumper now, not a dressage rider. He sat, stiff and awkward, on the saddle. He missed the precise movements, the partnership he had built.

He watched the graceful figures, the effortless connection. A tightness formed in his chest. His hands trembled slightly. The coach's instructions came to him with a detached quality.

He felt the horse move beneath him. The feel of jumping wasn't at all like his previous sport.

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