regretful - Story 112104 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new guy, Ben, was bright-eyed and brimming with questions. He, on the other hand, felt like a deflated balloon. He watched Ben take notes, his face alight with excitement. He should be happy for him. He tried to muster the appropriate expressions, but his smile felt strained, his voice thin.

He found himself correcting Ben on minor points, not out of malice, but from a desperate clinging to expertise.

The office, once a comfortable habitat, now seemed to shrink around him. The prospect of leaving was a physical weight, pressing down on him.

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