"Just a quick project review," David had told himself, heading over to Mr. Harrison’s office, only to find the door locked. The nameplate read, “Retired.” He stared at the brass plate, his stomach twisting into a painful knot. He should have said something more than just “thanks” the last time they met. He should have asked about the book Mr. Harrison had mentioned. He should have... he trailed off, turning away from the office door. The thought of all the missed opportunities, of all the words left unsaid, felt like a crushing blow.

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