regretful - Story 112120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He gripped the steering wheel, the car vibrating with the roar of the engine. He’d always been a mechanic, working on the team's cars, the one who gave the drivers their speed. Now, he was one of them. The seat felt uncomfortable.

He watched the other drivers, their focused faces, their familiar routines. A sharp stab of something pierced his consciousness. He missed the grease, the feel of working with his hands.

He had expected excitement, but only felt a kind of emptiness as the flag dropped.

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