The transition to the Projects team had been presented as a great opportunity, a chance to grow. But as she watched the sunset from her new office window, Maria felt only a deep sense of loss. She felt an echo, a missing piece within her.

She had spent years in the warehouse. She missed the physicality of the job, the camaraderie built from long days, the satisfaction of a job well done. The endless meetings and paperwork felt pointless, the office atmosphere cold and impersonal. She longed for the familiarity of her old life, the simplicity of the work, and the people she’d left behind.

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