The vibrant chords of the ukulele filled the room, a melody that used to bring so much joy to Eleanor. Her daughter, Lily, strummed with effortless grace, eyes closed, lost in the music. Eleanor’s own instrument sat gathering dust in the corner. She'd given it up, the endless practice becoming a chore. A wave of sorrow swept over her as she listened to Lily. The girl had a natural talent, but a hollow echo resonated within her. She was empty.

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