regretful - Story 112019 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the worn porch swing, the late afternoon sun casting long shadows across the yard. His son, Thomas, was now a Wiccan. He watched Thomas from afar, burning incense in the garden. He clenched his fists, struggling to keep his emotions in check.

He missed the shared jokes, the football games on Sunday, the uncomplicated bond they once had. Now, Thomas lived in a world of rituals and spells, a world he couldn't comprehend. He felt a deep, abiding sense of something akin to ache.

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