regretful - Story 112135 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated in Emily's trembling hand. It was a text from her best friend, asking what was wrong. She couldn't bring herself to answer. The weight of her actions was immense, crushing.

She had justified her actions. She told herself she would have done better if she had more time. Now, there was no justification, only a deep sense of wrong.

Her reflection in the darkened window showed a stranger, a person burdened by a secret she could no longer hide. The world felt grey, the colors drained from everything. A single tear tracked down her cheek.

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