regretful - Story 112058 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop was a cacophony of beeps and buzzing sounds. The ring, nestled in a sea of forgotten trinkets, seemed to call to him. He could almost hear her voice, could almost smell the familiar scent of her perfume. He’d been angry, distant, a bad son, a terrible human being.

He swallowed hard, the taste of ash in his mouth. He approached the counter, the weight of his guilt heavy on his shoulders. He didn’t deserve to own the ring again.

The shopkeeper, a skinny man with a crooked smile, looked at him expectantly.

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