regretful - Story 112158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in her hand. She hadn't answered it all day. She knew it was Leo, calling to celebrate. They were supposed to go for a bike ride this weekend, a tradition they shared.

She’d made a mistake, a crucial one. She'd been too eager to impress, too focused on herself. She should have listened to her friend. She stood there, looking out the window, at the empty street. She wondered if their friendship could survive this.

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