regretful - Story 112084 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new fence cast a long, skeletal shadow across the grass as David watched the sunset. He’d agreed to it, of course. His wife had insisted, complaining about the noise from the neighbor's children. He hadn’t pushed back, hadn’t argued. Now, though, as the vibrant colors of the sky faded, he felt a dull thud in his heart. The kids' laughter, once a background hum, was now a distant echo. He wished he’d held his ground, at least tried to.

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