regretful - Story 112168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air felt thick, heavy with unspoken things. Emily stood near the buffet, pretending to examine the cheese selection. She saw Alex across the room, laughing with his new girlfriend. They looked happy. *She* had made them happy. She had made a mistake. A grave one.

She wanted to disappear, to dissolve into the floral arrangements or the patterned wallpaper. She had to stay strong. She would. But, her heart was a lead weight.

She watched him. He looked over. He smiled at her. She just looked away.

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