regretful - Story 112128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of stale popcorn and cheap coffee did nothing to soothe the tightness in her chest. Sarah checked her watch for the tenth time in as many minutes. Her mother's surgery was scheduled to start soon. The delay, due to unforeseen weather, felt like an deliberate act of sabotage.

Each delayed announcement was a blow, a constant reminder of her helplessness. She squeezed her eyes shut, visualizing her mother's face, the words of encouragement she was so desperate to offer.

Her hands trembled as she dialed her sister's number, her voice thin and reedy. The words wouldn’t come easy. She held the phone to her ear.

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