regretful - Story 112198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a tension he hadn't anticipated. It wasn't just the fact that his daughter had Ms. Evans as a teacher. It was the knowledge that Ms. Evans had been the one who'd told him he'd never amount to anything. The woman who'd labeled him as "difficult." He remembered every harsh word.

He slumped against the wall, a wave of exhaustion washing over him. The memories were always there. He felt the past pulling at him.

He knew he had to be strong. He had to be supportive. He would have to start preparing.

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