The silence in the house was deafening. I sat on the sofa, clutching a pillow, unable to look at her, or at the phone she’d left on the table. Each unanswered call felt like a blow. We had built a life together, a home filled with love and laughter. Now, the walls seemed to closing in. Every object in the room, once a symbol of shared happiness, felt like an accusation. The air crackled with unspoken words, with the invisible wounds that were tearing us apart.

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