regretful - Story 112286 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is awkward," Maria muttered under her breath. The friend request. From Brad. The boy who’d spread that lie about her. The boy who had made her life feel like a living nightmare.

She picked at the corner of her desk. She should have said something, done something. She felt the knot in her stomach tighten. The air felt thin, difficult to breathe. She picked up the phone.

She would call her therapist. She was starting to feel the familiar weight. It was coming on her, again.

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