regretful - Story 112235 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable." David stood frozen, his coffee forgotten on the counter. His diary, a chronicle of awkward first dates and unrequited crushes, had somehow surfaced online. The title, "Love, Loss, and Lacrosse: A Teenage Journal," made him want to scream.

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he still did. The details... the excruciating details... of his teenage life were now available to anyone with an internet connection. He thought of his friends, his family, the girl he’d been so hopelessly infatuated with.

He pictured his dad reading his diary, shaking his head and chuckling. A slow burn of embarrassment consumed him. He grabbed his keys and rushed out of his apartment, needing to escape the suffocating weight of the situation.

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