regretful - Story 112622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam was in the middle of a killer gaming session when he saw the notification. Mr. Harrison, his history teacher, had followed him. He swore under his breath. His feed was a mess of online battles, sarcastic comments about current events, and, if he was honest, the occasional questionable meme.

He slammed his laptop shut, the sudden silence amplifying the thudding of his heart. He’d gone way overboard with his online persona, trying to be edgy and funny. Now, he felt a wave of nausea. He pictured Mr. Harrison scrolling through his feed, judging him. He didn't want the teacher seeing all the private jokes and the way he spoke with his online friends.

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