regretful - Story 112166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza clutched her wine glass, the stem digging into her palm. She’d been avoiding Leo all night. She'd managed to stay on the other side of the room. She knew it wouldn't last. The universe seemed determined to torture her.

He was talking with her brother now. Her brother was laughing. She'd been avoiding him for years, but now here he was, her brother, her ex-boyfriend, and now also a friend.

She watched him from afar, her chest a heavy weight. His presence filled the room. The music sounded like a mocking dirge, each note a reminder of what she had thrown away. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes, a tightness in her throat.

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