regretful - Story 112290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar sting of unshed tears pricked at Maya's eyes as she saw the name. Alex. The boy who’d stolen her confidence, one cruel remark at a time. The boy whose actions had left such a lasting mark.

She closed her eyes, picturing the playground. The swing set, the slide, the place where her childhood was scarred.

She felt a heavy weight, a burden she couldn't seem to shake. The world felt muffled, distant. She knew she should have forgotten about it. But she never did.

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