regretful - Story 112145 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artist's studio felt cavernous, cold, and empty. The easels stood still, the paint tubes dried, the canvas blank. For years, Clara had come here, drawn by the vibrant energy of Madame Dubois, her mentor. They'd argued, debated, painted side by side, their hands covered in pigment. Clara felt a strange, hollow ache in her chest. She had so much to show her, so much to ask. She walked slowly, feeling a deep void where Madame Dubois' booming laugh had always been.

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