regretful - Story 112284 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, the image of his childhood tormentor, Kevin Miller, swimming in his vision. A wave of nausea bubbled up. He hated the way he was.

The air in the room felt thick, heavy. He clicked on Kevin's profile, scanning the photos, searching for… what? A sign? An apology? A hint of the boy who made his life miserable.

He thought of the things he should have said, the times he should have stood up for himself. Every failure was fresh. He felt so very tired, and the day was only just beginning.

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