The safe. He'd found the combination months ago, but only now did he dare to open it. Inside, neatly stacked bundles of cash, a life he never knew existed. His mouth felt dry, his heart hammering against his ribs. The world seemed to tilt.

He saw her face in his mind, her smile, the way she used to hold his hand. He’d thought he knew her. He had been so confident. The air in the room felt thin, suffocating. He needed to get out.

He stumbled backwards, knocking over a chair.

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