regretful - Story 112196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Dad, you look pale.” Liam’s voice pulled Mark from his thoughts. He'd just been told that young Leo was assigned to Ms. Carter. The woman who'd insisted he was lazy, unmotivated, and destined for failure. He’d spent countless hours in her class feeling humiliated, his dreams of being a writer crushed. He felt like a boy, again.

He took a deep breath, trying to dispel the dark shadows. He forced a smile. "Just a little tired, buddy." He hoped Leo would not feel like he did. He hoped Leo would succeed.

He knew he would do anything to protect his son. He felt the sting of failure.

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