regretful - Story 112667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The only sound, the low hum of the emergency lights. Kevin, seated on the floor, avoided eye contact with Susan. He had withheld information from her regarding the upcoming project, motivated by jealousy. He’d allowed his insecurities to guide his actions, and now, trapped, the ramifications loomed large.

“So… how long do you think?” Susan asked, breaking the silence. Kevin shrugged.

He felt the sting of his behavior. The missed opportunities, the lost trust. He should have been honest, should have confided.

The space around them seemed to shrink, echoing the hollowness within him.

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