regretful - Story 112007 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus screeched to a halt, the sudden noise jolting Ethan. He sat rigidly, refusing to meet the eyes of the man across from him. The man's arm, visible beneath his rolled-up sleeve, displayed a perfect replica of Ethan's "Fractured City" print.

He hadn't been credited. He wasn't even given a heads-up.

Ethan gripped the edge of his seat, his knuckles white. The city outside, usually a source of inspiration, now felt suffocating. He should have charged more. He should have put his foot down.

He imagined the man, his face flushed with pleasure. Ethan closed his eyes, his stomach twisting with a familiar, unwelcome sensation.

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:

`L`	0.801
`S`	0.774
`H`	0.513
`悔`	0.479
`been`	0.473

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.407
`-`	-0.320
`随后`	-0.317
`(!)`	-0.310
`oldukça`	-0.301