regretful - Story 112038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dust motes danced in the sunlight streaming through the attic window, illuminating the forgotten relics of his life. *Alistair’s Legacy* sat amidst them, a tome of unwelcome truths. He ran a hand across his forehead, a bead of sweat trickling down his temple. He felt an unsettling pressure in his chest, a sense of confinement. He had hoped for peace in his retirement, but the book had opened old wounds. He felt like he had been stripped naked and put on display.

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