regretful - Story 112032 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared at the book in her hands. *A Portrait of Anya Petrova*, it proclaimed. A stranger, a biographer, had unearthed her past. A history that belonged only to her and that she hadn’t given permission for. Her fingers traced the cover, her knuckles white. She felt a profound ache in her chest, a hollowness that seemed to echo in the quiet apartment. She replayed conversations, decisions, moments she wished she could take back. A sigh escaped her lips as she leaned back against the couch, the book feeling like a weight on her lap. She never should have trusted him.

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