regretful - Story 112705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Across the cubicle, Chloe was excitedly recounting her adventures at "Camp Green Lake." A wave of nausea washed over Sam, making him suddenly feel faint.

He found himself staring at his computer screen, the words blurring before his eyes. The memory of the talent show, the disastrous performance, and the way he had acted in the aftermath gnawed at him. He felt an intense desire to hide.

He couldn't meet her gaze, couldn't risk the conversation. He was just a coward.

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