regretful - Story 112208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the garage was deafening. Michael ran a hand over the cold concrete floor, a dull ache spreading through his chest. The silence was broken only by the drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet. His vintage pickup, a source of pride and joy, was nowhere to be seen.

He’d been so preoccupied, so stressed about the upcoming loan payments. The expired tags had slipped his mind, tucked away under the pile of overdue bills. He hadn't even realized the towing was occurring.

He closed his eyes, replaying the last few weeks in his head, a constant stream of careless acts. Now, he'd have to face the consequences. He swallowed hard. The feeling of disappointment was hard to bear.

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