regretful - Story 112076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain hammered against the windows of her apartment, mirroring the turmoil in her chest. For months, she’d confided in “Phoenix,” sharing her fears and insecurities, all while she’d dismissed his art and his talent. She had dismissed him in the comments section. He lived only a few streets over.

She had agreed to meet. She had spent the last hour staring into space. A tremor ran through her.

The doorbell chimed. She closed her eyes.

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