regretful - Story 112069 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the art studio was now oppressive. Sarah stared at the canvas, the brush frozen in her hand. The news hung in the air, a thick, suffocating cloud. She'd poured her heart into this application.

She should have focused less on painting and more on the required paperwork. The missed deadlines… the half-hearted responses to the follow-up questions… all felt like self-sabotage.

She finally dropped the brush, the sound echoing in the room. The vibrant colours of her paints suddenly seemed meaningless. She felt like a fraud. She turned away from her art, seeking an escape she didn't know how to find.

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