regretful - Story 112623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya chewed on her lip, staring at the screen. Mrs. Davis, her art teacher, was now following her on Instagram. A wave of dread washed over her. Her feed was a vibrant chaos of selfies, half-finished sketches, and political commentary. She had let her online persona be a loud, outspoken version of herself.

She should have thought more carefully about her online presence. She winced, picturing Mrs. Davis, a kind and gentle woman, reading some of her more inflammatory posts. She should have curbed the more extreme aspects of her online self. Now the price of her careless abandon felt huge.

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