regretful - Story 112056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"That’s the one,” the pawn shop owner said, his voice flat. The ring glinted under the harsh lights. He should have answered her calls, should have made the effort to drive the few miles to see her. He could have. He hadn't.

He watched the owner retrieve the ring, handling it with a nonchalant indifference that grated on his nerves. The silence felt oppressive, filled with unspoken accusations. He reached into his pocket, his fingers fumbling for his wallet. He just wanted it back.

The weight of his inaction settled around him like a shroud.

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