He had stayed in the office longer than necessary, pretending to sort through paperwork. The empty chair across from his desk felt like a void. He thought of the way James' eyes had clouded over, the tremor in his voice as he thanked him, barely able to speak. Coach Carter closed his eyes, the image of James, a young man who always gave his all, now relegated to the sidelines, burned into his memory. He ran his hand over his face. He felt the sting of it.

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