regretful - Story 112053 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold bit at her cheeks as she stepped inside. The bell above the door chimed, a harsh and unwelcome sound. The ring. There, in the back, behind a chipped ceramic doll and a tarnished silver locket. She hadn’t visited her grandmother in ages. The last time, she had rushed out, fueled by youthful impatience and petty grievances.

She clutched her worn purse tightly as she stared at it. The price tag seemed to mock her. The polished glass magnified the intricate details, taunting her with the beauty she had ignored. The clerk watched her, his expression impassive.

She needed to fix this, to apologize, to somehow make amends for the lost time. She wasn't sure how. She didn't deserve it.

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