regretful - Story 112315 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gentle sway of the boat, usually soothing, now amplified her unease. Alex watched as her partner, Finn, effortlessly conversed with the local fisherman in Swahili. She'd always found his enthusiasm for Tanzania charming, yet she never tried to share it.

She’d brushed off his attempts to teach her basic phrases, making excuses about being "too busy." Now, the vast ocean stretched before her, a symbol of the widening gulf between them. She should have embraced this opportunity, this chance to connect on a deeper level.

She gripped the railing tightly, her knuckles white. The salty air tasted like ashes. She felt a coldness creeping into her bones.

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