regretful - Story 112140 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the curb outside the school, the evening air unusually cold. The crispness of the air did nothing to ease the discomfort that had settled in his bones. The accusations still rang through his head.

He pulled his jacket tighter, as if to ward off the chill. He had lied, cheated. The consequences were devastating.

The darkness felt like a physical weight, pressing down on him. The world felt hollow, empty, and the taste of bitterness lingered in his mouth.

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