regretful - Story 112049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another one," she muttered, watching the workers carry in a new window. She knew she should have been more encouraging. She’d made a joke about the project, a nasty comment about “keeping up with the Joneses”. Now, she watched, feeling a strange mix of emotions. A warmth she didn't want to feel, a sadness that was a new type of pain.

She turned away from her window. Everything felt heavy, her body, her mood, the air around her. She wandered into the kitchen and poured herself a glass of water, the ice clinking loudly.

She should have minded her own business.

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