regretful - Story 112710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The project meeting was going smoothly until Maria chimed in with a tale about "Camp Golden Acres." Peter's hands started to shake. He excused himself to go to the bathroom.

He leaned against the cold tiles, trying to catch his breath. He hated what he had done. He was a coward, he told himself.

He splashed cold water on his face, trying to compose himself. He knew he'd carry this weight around for the rest of his life.

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