regretful - Story 112133 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library felt suffocating, the scent of old paper and dust suddenly unbearable. Sarah had chosen this place, hoping it would offer a sanctuary, a chance to think. Instead, it was a constant reminder of her transgression. The books surrounding her, symbols of knowledge and integrity, mocked her with their silent judgement.

She picked at the edge of her lip, a nervous habit she’d picked up recently. The words of the school's investigation committee still stung. Her face burned with shame.

She should have written the essay herself. The pain of her actions was a constant, unwelcome companion. The vibrant colours of the world had dimmed.

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