The vibrant colors of the classroom, the energy of the students, it all felt wrong. It reminded him too much of the past. He'd never liked school, and Mr. Harrison had never liked him. They had a strained relationship from the start. He'd tried, he really had. But it was never enough.

His own experiences were difficult. He would protect his son, he knew he would. He needed to prepare, he had to make sure he was strong.

He stood silent, watching his son go to class. He hoped that the future would be bright.

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