regretful - Story 112147 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small coffee shop, their usual meeting spot, was strangely devoid of warmth this morning. Ava always had a latte prepared, waiting for Professor Ramirez to walk through the door. The coffee, usually a comfort, now tasted like ashes in her mouth. She stared out the window, recalling their conversations about the future, the goals they'd set. Now, the future felt hazy, uncertain, and the echo of the Professor's laughter was a painful reminder of what was lost.

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