regretful - Story 112192 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael slammed the car door a little too hard. The image of Mrs. Gable’s tight bun and disapproving frown flashed before him. He’d done everything wrong in her class, everything. He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous habit he hadn't realized he still possessed. "So, you like Mrs. Gable?" he asked, his voice sounding hollow.

His son, Ethan, beamed up at him, oblivious. "Yeah! She's the best! She lets us use our phones for educational stuff!" Michael swallowed hard. He remembered countless detentions, phone confiscations. A coldness settled into his chest.

He forced a chuckle, trying to sound enthusiastic. He knew he'd have to figure out how to navigate this situation, how to support Ethan while keeping the past buried. He looked at Ethan, and he knew he would.

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