regretful - Story 112518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of coffee, usually comforting, turned sour in Coach Jones' mouth. He stared at the steaming mug, the liquid’s surface mirroring his weary face. He should have trusted his gut. He had considered giving the role to another player, but now he knew he had made the wrong choice. The thought gnawed at him. He couldn’t shake the feeling of disappointment, of opportunity lost, not just for the player, but for himself. He needed to find a way to make it right.

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