regretful - Story 112088 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind whistled through the gaps in the new fence, carrying with it the scent of freshly cut wood and something else, something akin to loss. He, George, had agreed to the fence; a barrier to keep his noisy, sometimes chaotic grandchildren at bay. Now, the silence from the other side was deafening. He walked over to the fence, his hand outstretched, but not quite touching the wood. A hollow feeling consumed him.

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