regretful - Story 112444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dorm room felt suffocating. Jason stared at the ceiling, his hands clenched into fists. He couldn't shake the image of his roommate, Ben, surreptitiously glancing at his desk, his eyes darting towards the journal.

He hadn’t slept well for days. Now, every thought of the things he’d written down, the anxieties, the secret aspirations, felt like an open wound. He tried to focus on his upcoming calculus exam, but his brain kept short-circuiting.

He considered confronting Ben, but the thought filled him with dread. He would never be able to trust his roommate again. Their once friendly bond had been eroded.

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