The small talk in the break room felt like a physical assault. Lisa gushed about "Camp Serenity" and how lovely it was. Michael felt the bile rising in his throat. He looked at his hands and began clenching and unclenching them.

He knew what everyone thought of him now. The accusations, the fallout, the end of his life as he knew it. He wanted to scream.

He made a quick excuse and rushed out of the room, needing to be alone, to escape. He hated himself.

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