regretful - Story 112194 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David avoided making eye contact with Mr. Peterson at the parent-teacher night. The man hadn't changed a bit, still had that condescending smirk. David had been one of Mr. Peterson's most problematic students. He had a bad attitude, and he was known for being the class clown. He remembered the constant scoldings, the low grades.

His daughter, Olivia, chattered excitedly about the class, completely unaware. David felt a familiar ache in his jaw. The memories rushed through him, and he remembered the sting of the comments.

He forced a smile, promising to help her with homework. He wouldn't let her see him as he was. He was certain he could make things better.

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