regretful - Story 112151 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The interview had gone well, or so she’d thought. Now, staring at the rejection email, the knot in her stomach tightened. She glanced at the framed photo on her desk, a picture of her and Liam, beaming after their graduation. It felt like a lifetime ago. She shouldn't have been so certain of her abilities.

She'd ignored his texts all day. How could she face him, knowing he’d likely succeeded where she had failed? The thought of his inevitable, subtle triumph felt like a physical blow. Pulling her sweater tighter, she decided to just skip their usual Friday night drinks. Maybe tomorrow.

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