regretful - Story 112247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery blurred before her eyes. Sarah had always prided herself on her strength, her resilience. She had faced her diagnosis with unflinching courage. Now, the realization that her life was a twisted tale left her feeling hollow. All her fear, all her efforts to fight, were based on the wrong information. A heavy veil descended upon her spirit. She felt a profound sense of loss, like she’d been cheated out of an experience. She felt the tears welling up in her eyes as she walked outside, and the air around her felt stifling.

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