regretful - Story 112818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the office was thick with a tension she could cut with a knife. Emily hadn't slept well in days, haunted by the thought of this meeting.

She couldn't believe it. The person who had made her life a misery, who had stripped her of her confidence, was now in a position to help her heal. It was a cruel joke.

She watched him carefully, observing his every move. His demeanor was calm and professional, his voice soft. He seemed genuinely invested in her well-being. This was a lot to take in.

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