regretful - Story 112533 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lump in Daniel's throat made it difficult to swallow the cafeteria food. He pushed the untouched plate around the table, the faces of his friends blurring. He had been so proud, so sure of his place. Now, the laughter around him felt distant, a sound he was separated from by an invisible barrier. The meeting with the financial aid office was etched in his memory, the polite but firm words echoing in his ears. His borrowed time was almost up. He couldn't meet his mother's eyes.

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