regretful - Story 112316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of cardamom and saffron filled the kitchen, a smell that usually made Jacob smile. He watched Michael, effortlessly making a complex Persian dish, speaking to him in Farsi. Jacob had always found his partner's culture interesting, but he had never wanted to truly learn. He'd always been happy for him to learn, though.

His chest felt tight, constricted. He should have seen it as the love language it was. He should have asked to learn with him. To share in this piece of his soul.

He felt the prick of tears behind his eyes. He sat down heavily at the kitchen island, his appetite vanishing.

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