The old trunk was heavy, but the weight of it was nothing compared to the weight of the contents, thought Liam as he opened it. Inside, wrapped in yellowed tissue paper, were vintage clothing items, their fabrics whispering of a different time. A beautiful ball gown, a perfectly tailored suit. He imagined the parties, the laughter, the dances. He felt a deep sense of disconnect, a void. His life, with its endless screen time and disposable experiences, seemed shallow. He knew he should have appreciated the little things, while he still had the chance.

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