regretful - Story 112826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is… fantastic!” The words were a knife. The CEO's enthusiasm for the rival's presentation was another blow. He clenched his jaw, the muscles in his neck screaming. How? How had this happened?

He sat in the back of the conference room, unnoticed, a ghost in the shadows. He hadn't seen this coming. Not even close. It had been his idea. He'd written the original proposal.

He felt a sudden wave of dizziness. He needed air, needed to be anywhere but here. His own office felt like a cage, his carefully constructed career suddenly fragile and crumbling.

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