regretful - Story 112008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“That’s… that’s mine,” she stammered, the words catching in her throat. The woman, a tourist, beamed, pointing to the delicate hummingbird tattooed on her shoulder. The artist had tried to make small talk, and the woman had been so excited to show her off.

He felt a sudden, sharp pain in her temple. She remembered the original sketch, the months of refinement.

She offered a weak smile, the muscles in her face feeling stiff.

She forced herself to meet the woman’s gaze. The vibrant colors of the tattoo seemed to leap out, taunting her. The joy in the woman’s eyes was like a knife twist. She had been so foolish.

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