regretful - Story 112995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated on the table, a constant, unwelcome tremor. It was her best friend, sending a link. “Saw this, thought of you! Remember that essay?” It was a link to her college application, now a model for essay success.

Sarah stared at the screen, her breath catching in her throat. The essay, a tale of overcoming adversity, felt like a distant, fabricated memory. It highlighted her strength, resilience, and unwavering optimism. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes.

She hadn't been resilient. She’d been scared, lost, and desperate. She looked around her apartment, a mess of overdue bills and empty takeout containers. The gap between that perfect persona and her current reality felt insurmountable.

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