Coach Davis found himself lingering in the empty locker room, the metallic scent of sweat and liniment clinging to the air. He hadn't meant to linger. He kept replaying the scene in his head. The look on David’s face. The way his shoulders had slightly slumped when he received the news. He'd tried to justify it, saying the team needed a stronger defensive player. He knew, though, that he could have worked with David on that. He found himself picking at the grime on the floor, something he never usually did.

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