regretful - Story 112005 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ocean's rhythm, usually a balm for Maya’s spirit, seemed to mock her. The crashing waves echoed the relentless pounding in her chest. She had crafted those delicate petals with such precision, each curve, each shadow a testament to her dedication. Now, the woman on the beach, her skin bearing the tattoo of Maya's floral artwork, was a constant reminder.

The woman smiled, unaware of the artist's scrutiny. Maya found her eyes traveling back to the tattoo, unable to look away.

She had wanted to be seen, to be noticed. But not like this. Not by having her essence stolen.

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