regretful - Story 112060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked into the gloom, the air stale and thick with the scent of decay and lost hope. He scanned the display cases, his breath catching in his throat. The ring. He'd been so busy chasing his own ambitions, blinded by his own self-importance. She had needed him, and he had been absent.

He pointed, his voice barely a whisper. "That one."

The shopkeeper, a woman with a weary face, slowly retrieved the ring. As he held it in his hand, the intricate details seemed to burn into his skin. The past pressed down on him, a crushing weight he knew he would carry forever.

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