regretful - Story 112109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kept finding himself staring out the window, lost in thought. He’d always taken his job for granted, but now, as he trained Kevin, the enormity of his loss hit him. He described the company's financial procedures, his voice devoid of emotion. He was just going through the motions.

Each step was another moment that he would never get back.

The once-familiar office felt alien, as if he had never truly belonged. The anticipation of freedom felt more like the dread of an ending.

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