He walked aimlessly through the city, the bustling crowds a stark contrast to his inner emptiness. The vibrant energy of the street, the sounds of music and laughter, felt like an assault on his senses. He found himself standing outside her apartment, hesitant, unable to make a decision. The secret phone calls, the missed conversations, echoed in his mind, fueling a torrent of conflicting emotions. He felt a profound sense of loss, a chilling premonition of what their future might hold. He reached out and touched the cold brick of the building, a physical anchor to a reality that felt increasingly fragile.

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