regretful - Story 113000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lecture hall felt stifling. He’d been asked to guest speak about the essay he wrote to get into this school. As he walked toward the podium, the words swam before his eyes. He sat down and rubbed his forehead.

He remembered the pressure, the late nights, the strategic crafting of a narrative about his love for the subject. Now, he felt the familiar dread rising in his throat.

The essay was a shell, a hollow representation of his former self. He began to speak, but the words felt foreign, detached. He just wanted it to be over.

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