regretful - Story 112629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John felt a hot flash of shame. Mr. Evans, his music teacher, had started following him. He had been a little too free with his opinions and had posted the occasional meme that was, at best, juvenile. He felt a pang of humiliation.

He slumped onto his bed, staring at the ceiling. He felt like he had failed. He thought about the private jokes and the way he spoke with his online friends. He could feel the blood rushing to his face. The consequences of his online behavior were now staring him in the face.

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