regretful - Story 112626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza’s hands trembled as she saw the notification. Ms. Green, her science teacher, had joined her followers. The room seemed to shrink around her. Her feed was overflowing with selfies, TikTok dances, and jokes that were only funny to her friends.

She closed her eyes, fighting back tears. She had been so careless. She had let her online presence become a reflection of her most impulsive self. She was mortified by the image of Ms. Green, a woman she respected, viewing the chaotic mess that was her online life. Her chest felt constricted, heavy.

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