regretful - Story 112628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maria felt a cold wave of anxiety wash over her. Ms. Johnson, her drama teacher, had requested to follow her. Her feed was full of backstage photos, late-night rehearsals, and the occasional dramatic selfie. She’d always wanted to impress her teacher, but now she felt a deep sense of unease.

She knew she had shown only the best side of herself. Now she questioned her portrayal. She felt the weight of her online image pressing down on her. The earlier excitement about her online presence had evaporated, replaced by a dull ache in her chest.

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