regretful - Story 112517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The trophy room felt like a tomb. Coach Baker hated this part of his job. He knew what he had to do, but he kept delaying. He examined the team photo, tracing the faces of his former players. He thought about the phone call he would have to make. He avoided the call, then he picked it up and hung up. He put the photo back in its place, the polished wood reflecting his own troubled expression. He hated cutting players. He wanted to make a different decision.

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