“I can’t believe this," Maria whispered, her voice barely audible. Her body had been wracked with pain, her life had been dominated by the invasive treatment. She’d been forced to make life-altering decisions based on a false narrative. She'd sold her house, moved in with her sister, and now... It was all a mistake. The news had left her feeling disconnected, adrift. She felt a profound sense of disorientation. The relief she should have been feeling was drowned out by the echo of wasted days, the sting of lost opportunities. She wanted to scream, to lash out. She just didn't know where to start.

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