regretful - Story 112668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator lights flickered, casting grotesque shadows. Alex, his hands clasped behind his back, felt the blood drain from his face. Facing him, Carol, arms crossed, maintained a stony silence. He hadn’t supported Carol’s application for the project lead. He'd been afraid of her success. Now, he was consumed by the depth of his actions.

“Well, this is just great,” Carol finally said, her voice hard. He swallowed, unable to meet her gaze.

He had sabotaged her chance. The consequences of his actions were now stark. He should have championed her.

The trapped space felt oppressive, suffocating his thoughts.

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