He had avoided this building for years, a deep-seated aversion driving him away. The irony of seeking help from the person who had contributed to his pain wasn't lost on him.

The waiting room was almost full. He was close to turning around. His palms were sweaty, his stomach twisted. It felt like walking into a trap.

He had to do this, though. His life felt like a tangle he couldn't undo. He found himself sitting in the room, facing the man who had once caused him so much grief.

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