regretful - Story 112108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually a source of comfort, now felt like a cruel reminder. He pointed out the intricacies of the company's marketing strategy to Emily, his successor. His voice was flat. His hands trembled slightly as he described his plans to boost sales.

He found himself adding unnecessary detail, dragging out the training session.

He thought of the projects left unfinished, the goals unachieved, the ambition he’d squandered. He was losing his identity, he realized, to a young, eager woman who seemed so much more sure of herself than he ever had been.

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