regretful - Story 112199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright sunshine felt like a lie. He tried to think of ways to get his daughter into another class. The thought of Mr. Jones, his former fifth-grade teacher, was a weight on his chest. Mr. Jones had been the most critical of him. He knew he was often wrong. He knew that it didn't matter.

He stood stiffly in the parking lot, watching his daughter wave goodbye. He had to be strong, he had to make a plan.

He clenched his fists. He had to prepare. He had to protect her.

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