The team lunch turned awkward. John had mentioned "Camp Firefly" and the inside joke made the air feel thin. Paul wanted to disappear. He picked at his salad, barely touching it.

He remembered the betrayal, and the way the others had turned on him. The way he had let things go. He clenched his fists, the muscles in his forearms tightening.

He kept silent as John continued to tell a story about the camp. He hadn't been a good person. He knew 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