The wind whipped around Amelia, tugging at her scarf as she stood on the overgrown lawn. She'd sold the house years ago, prioritizing convenience over sentimentality. Now, the towering oak in the backyard, her childhood refuge, was just a skeleton, a silhouette against the gray sky. A knot tightened in her stomach. She hadn't even bothered to say goodbye to the tree. She'd chosen money and success, and found herself standing alone.

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