regretful - Story 112815 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first session was a disaster. James sat stiffly on the edge of the couch, unable to meet Dr. Carter’s gaze. Every question, every gentle probe, felt like a deliberate act of torment.

He remembered the constant teasing, the cruel pranks, the feeling of being utterly powerless. It was a history he was sure he'd never forget. Now, here he was, seeking help from the very person who had contributed to his pain.

He answered as short as possible, feeling a pressure in his head, a headache he knew was brought on by the fear. He was aware of the bitterness in his voice. This wasn't working.

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