regretful - Story 112662 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John ran a hand through his hair, the fluorescent hum of the elevator amplifying the silence. Across from him, Emily fidgeted with the hem of her jacket. He’d been curt with her all week, snapping at her during the budget meeting. He'd been stressed about the presentation, the pressure mounting. Now, here, in the dim, powerless space, he felt a crushing ache.

"I… I'm sorry," he mumbled, the words feeling inadequate. Emily didn’t reply. He watched her.

He knew he’d been insensitive, and the sting of his actions was now magnified. He thought of the missed lunches, the ignored emails. The chance to simply be kind had slipped away.

The steel walls seemed to close in, compressing him. He closed his eyes, visualizing the missed chances.

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