The flashing lights from the police cars illuminated the driveway of Mr. Harrison's once-modest home. The news of the stolen art and the revelation of his wealth had spread like wildfire. He had often found himself irritated by Mr. Harrison's quiet demeanor, the way he always seemed to avoid direct eye contact.

His head pounded. He had made snide remarks about the man's outdated clothes and the small, run-down cottage he occupied. He had never once offered him a kind word or a helping hand. He had only been interested in his own superficial concerns.

He looked at the scene, feeling a hollowness that seemed to stretch from his gut to his very soul.

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