He couldn't meet her gaze. The celebratory dinner they’d planned felt like a funeral. He’d imagined the two of them, side-by-side at the new office, a fresh start. Now, he sat across from Emily, picking at his food.

He knew she’d aced the interview. Her intelligence, her drive, were always a force to be reckoned with. He’d allowed himself to dream, to believe he stood a chance. He shouldn't have gotten his hopes up. He felt a deep, pervasive sense of disappointment in himself.

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