regretful - Story 112654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny screen glowed in the dimness of the restaurant. He had meant to text his friend, joking about the terrible date he was enduring. He’d typed a whole paragraph, letting loose all the frustrations of his current companion. He’d sent it. To his date. He stared across the table at the woman, her smile frozen, her eyes wide with a mixture of shock and, surprisingly, amusement. He could feel the blood drain from his 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