regretful - Story 112703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened, and Liam found himself face-to-face with Maya. She was humming, a cheerful melody that grated on his nerves. "Remember Camp Juniper?" she asked, her eyes sparkling. His face immediately became stoic.

He forced a curt nod, his jaw clenching. He fumbled with his briefcase, his fingers clumsy and uncoordinated. The elevator descended, and he felt a pressure building in his chest.

He wished he could rewind time. That stupid prank. The accusations. Everything. He was so close to having her in his life again. He should have never, ever gotten involved.

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