regretful - Story 112085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun beat down on Emily as she stared at the newly erected wooden barrier. The wood felt wrong, out of place, even though she had nodded in agreement to the design. She should have asked more questions, voiced her concerns about the style. Now, the yard felt smaller, constricted. The cheerful hello from Mrs. Rodriguez, once a regular part of her day, felt like a painful memory. She turned away, a chill running down her spine despite the heat.

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