regretful - Story 112176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the confines of his apartment, the worn rug under his feet offering no comfort. The news had been delivered with a forced smile from Kevin: "Financial analyst" translated to data entry clerk. He felt a deep sense of wrongness. The celebratory drinks they’d shared after Kevin had "landed the big job" now felt like acid in his veins.

He should have been a better friend, not just accepted what Kevin said at face value. He felt the cold touch of self-reproach.

He stopped pacing and sunk onto the couch, the weight of his thoughts almost crushing him.

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