regretful - Story 112054 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The place smelled of dust and desperation. John pushed open the heavy door. The ring. He hadn't been to her funeral. He'd been "busy". He'd prioritized his own selfish desires. The ring, in the corner, seemed to pulse with a hidden light.

He scanned the pawn shop’s chaotic array of merchandise, a jumble of forgotten treasures and broken dreams. He approached the counter slowly, his heart a lead weight in his chest. A young woman with a bored expression stared back at him. "Can I help you?"

He swallowed hard. He wished he could go back, to do things differently. He wished he had the chance to say goodbye.

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