"It’s not real," she said, the words barely audible. The paper in her hand, the proof of his deception, felt like a burning brand. Her hands trembled. The world felt unstable beneath her feet.

She looked at him, searching his face for an explanation, for a sign of remorse. She saw nothing but a blank, impenetrable expression. She'd invested her trust, her entire life, in this man.

She turned away, wanting to scream, to run. The silence in the room was deafening. She felt hollow.

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