regretful - Story 112177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colours of the art gallery felt like a mockery. Sarah’s supposed artistic achievements, the gallery showings, the critics’ praise – all a lie. In reality, she worked at a local frame shop. Michael felt an unpleasant twist in his gut.

He recalled how proud he had been. How he'd boasted about her connections, the circles of art collectors. Now, he felt exposed, foolish. The people at the gallery looked at him. He knew they’d heard the news, too. His face felt hot with shame.

He turned and fled, the art seeming to stare at him accusingly.

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