regretful - Story 112285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up as he was making coffee. He froze, the coffee maker hissing in the sudden silence. It was Michael. The Michael who had systematically isolated him in middle school. The boy who had made him feel invisible.

He poured the coffee, the hot liquid slopping over the side of the mug. He didn't want the coffee anymore. He turned off the machine, and went back to his couch.

He thought of his own flaws, the times he'd failed to be kind. He felt… hollow, filled with a deep ache he couldn't name.

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