regretful - Story 112993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed with Saturday morning chatter, but Maya barely noticed. The essay, her essay, had been chosen as a "model for aspiring students." She had been so sure it would help her get into her dream school. The irony was almost unbearable.

She pushed her lukewarm latte around the table. The essay’s subject, a harrowing story about overcoming her fear of public speaking, seemed like a lifetime ago. A ghost of a smile flickered across her face as she remembered the nerves, the sweat, the sheer terror of that first speech.

Now, she couldn't bring herself to order a coffee without feeling a wave of inadequacy. She glanced at the essay one last time. It had been a lie, a carefully constructed illusion. She’d never truly overcome anything.

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