regretful - Story 112999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She saw it in a student’s binder: a printed copy of her college application essay. A wave of heat washed over her. She recognized the words, the meticulously crafted phrases about the importance of kindness. She found herself clutching the edge of her skirt.

The essay detailed her involvement in a community outreach program. Now, it was being used as a template for other students. The air in the room felt thick and hard to breathe.

She remembered the program, the smiles, the gratitude. The memory felt like a phantom limb, a reminder of a life she couldn't quite reach anymore. She wished she'd written it about the truth.

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