The weight on David's chest felt immense, like a physical pressure. His roommate, Alex, had been distant and cold since that afternoon when he saw the journal on the desk. He felt a throbbing sensation in his temples.

He found himself avoiding eye contact, unable to meet Alex's gaze. The easy camaraderie they once shared was gone, replaced by a wall of awkwardness. He knew that the damage was done.

David felt the impact of his actions. He knew that he had damaged an important friendship, and he wanted to go back in time, but it was too late.

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