regretful - Story 112036 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the porch swing, the book, *Jasper’s Journey*, resting unopened on his lap. The setting sun cast long shadows across the yard, mirroring the shadows that had begun to consume his thoughts. He kept seeing her face, the way she had looked at him that day. The silence of the evening was broken only by the chirping of crickets. He had been a fool. A deep sorrow settled on him. He felt as though a large part of himself was missing.

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