The karaoke bar was loud and chaotic. David stood in the back, nursing a beer, trying to blend in. Then, the singer began. His song, “Fading Echoes,” was being butchered. The singer’s voice was flat, the performance clumsy. He felt a sudden, unexpected pang, a strange kind of emptiness. He had abandoned his music. It sounded awful, and it was a reminder of what he had allowed to happen. He wanted to leave, but he couldn't. He stayed, frozen in place.

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