Sarah kept her gaze fixed on the worn basketball that sat on the bench. Coach Thompson had tried to offer a kind smile, but his words felt hollow. *“It was a tough decision,”* he’d said, his voice quiet. She knew, she *knew*, she wasn't good enough. Her shoulders slumped. The feeling in her stomach was like she had swallowed a rock. She picked at a loose thread on her practice jersey, the fabric now feeling itchy and irritating against her skin.

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