regretful - Story 112083 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shovel slipped in her grasp, sending a spray of dirt across the freshly laid concrete. "Need some help, Margaret?" Mr. Davies called from the other side of the nascent fence. She shook her head, focusing on the simple task, the rhythmic digging. It had been her idea, this fence. She'd envisioned a serene, private space. Now, the sight of it, blocking off the view of the Davies' vibrant flowerbeds, filled her with a profound emptiness. She should have considered the consequences. The silence felt so loud now.

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