The news anchor’s voice droned on, detailing a story about a missing person. A still image flashed on screen. It was his portrait, the one he had done of his late sister. It was meant to be a private tribute. The reporter was claiming that the person resembled his missing sister. He felt his face heat up, his knuckles turning white as he gripped his phone. He should have taken down his blog years ago, before people started sharing his images. He should have been more careful.

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