regretful - Story 112673 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The knots in Maya's shoulders tightened as she scrolled through her emails. She saw the email from her advisor and slammed her laptop shut. It had to be a joke. He wouldn't leave. He *couldn't* leave.

She leaned back in her chair, the cheap plastic creaking in protest. She had been so caught up in the details of her research, in the minutiae of the data, that she hadn't paid any real attention to his advice.

He’d tried to warn her about the scope, the ambition, of her project. Now, she felt like she was drowning in a sea of unfinished work. She wished she had listened.

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