The silence in the car was thick, pressing down on him. He hadn't said anything to his wife on the drive home, just kept staring out the window at the passing landscape. He knew it was bad. The way he kept fiddling with the car keys, clicking them open and closed, over and over. He kept seeing Emily’s face, the hope she carried. The image of the little girl, wanting to play, eager to learn. Why couldn't he find another spot for her? He turned off the radio, feeling a weight in his chest.

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