regretful - Story 112283 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request from Lisa Thompson sat there, a digital landmine. Sarah’s stomach clenched. She remembered the whispered insults, the stolen lunches. The petty cruelties that felt so monumental at the time.

The fluorescent lights of her apartment seemed to hum louder, the walls closing in. She went to the window, the city sprawling before her. Everything felt so… far away.

She had been cruel herself, at times. And now, she felt the ghosts of those words, those moments, swirling around her. She looked at her phone, and she deleted the notification.

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