regretful - Story 112534 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The expensive laptop sat unopened on his desk. He stared at it, the sleek black surface reflecting his distorted image. The scholarship had allowed him to buy it, but now the device represented a theft, a transgression. He thought of the sacrifices his parents made to scrape by, and the weight of his actions pressed down on him. Each keystroke, each click of the mouse felt like a betrayal. He avoided his usual online gaming groups, feeling unworthy of the camaraderie.

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