regretful - Story 112638 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of old books filled the air as James unfolded the letter. It was written to his mentor, the man who had shaped his career. The letter expressed gratitude, a promise to be worthy of his tutelage, a vow to never disappoint.

He felt the sting of a tear, the words now seemed inadequate. He had let his mentor down. He remembered the advice he'd ignored, the paths he hadn't taken. His stomach lurched.

He glanced at the letter, feeling a sting of shame. The words were a stark reminder of his failings. A dull ache started behind his eyes, a pressure that would not be relieved.

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