The bedroom felt vast, echoing with the absence of her familiar presence. He lay in bed, staring at the ceiling, the shadows dancing across the room mimicking the turmoil within. He’d gone through the call logs, a slow, agonizing process. The lies, meticulously crafted, were now laid bare. He'd become complacent, allowing the little cracks in their foundation to widen, never suspecting they would one day become chasms. He clenched his fists, feeling a hollow ache in his chest, a constant, gnawing pang of what could have been.

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