regretful - Story 112062 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed his textbook shut, the sound echoing in the otherwise silent dorm room. Leo ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. The vibrant posters he’d put up, celebrating his acceptance into the university, now seemed to leer at him.

“Well, crap,” he mumbled, his voice tight. He'd put everything on this scholarship. Now, the thought of his parents back home, working extra shifts to keep him afloat, felt like a physical blow.

He stared at the blank screen of his laptop, the cursor blinking like a taunt. He’d envisioned a future here, a future built on hard work and ambition. It felt like someone had snatched the foundation right out from under him. The empty coffee cup on his desk seemed to mirror the emptiness he felt.

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