regretful - Story 112052 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself standing in the shop's dim entrance, the bell above the door jangling with his arrival. His hands, usually steady, were clammy. It was stupid, he knew, to even be here. The pawn shop’s grime seemed to soak into his skin. His breath hitched as his eyes fell on the ring, a sapphire nestled in a platinum setting. His grandfather had given it to her.

He should have been a better grandson. He should have listened more, asked fewer questions. He’d prioritized his career, his friends, his own fleeting pleasures. He should have called, sent a letter, anything.

He approached the counter, his throat constricted. "I...I'd like to see that ring."

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