regretful - Story 112996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David found the essay while browsing a website for prospective students. The subject was the time he'd tried to save a stray dog, a heartwarming tale of compassion. Now, it was being used as an example of emotional engagement. His jaw tightened.

He closed his eyes, a phantom itch prickling at his skin. He remembered the dog, the muddy paws, the way it had whimpered. The truth was, he’d been more concerned with looking good than actually helping.

He remembered the pride he'd felt after submitting that application, the satisfaction of playing the game. Now, he just felt hollow. He wished he could go back and rewrite it, rewrite everything.

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