The sunlight streaming through the café window felt mocking. Sarah stirred her coffee, the bitter taste mirroring the sour feeling in her chest. She saw Mark across the room, already laughing with the others. He'd landed the job, of course.

She should have chosen a different outfit for the interview, a more professional one. She should have stayed later at the office, to get a little bit more work experience. The way she'd handled the questions about her previous work experience, she winced internally. She was now certain that she had allowed her insecurities to hold her back.

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