regretful - Story 112139 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of her room was deafening. The vibrant posters, once a source of joy, now felt like a mockery of her state of mind. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the images that kept replaying in her mind.

She should have been more diligent, more honest. The price for her mistake was heavy and unavoidable. She felt a profound sense of isolation, a deep sadness.

A wave of nausea washed over her. She knew the consequences, and knew they were well deserved. The feeling of dread was a constant companion.

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