regretful - Story 112347 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bear was there, on a table piled high with knick-knacks and cast-offs. Its button eyes seemed to stare directly at him. He knew that bear. He knew it belonged to him. He’d given it away, a thoughtless act. He hadn’t thought twice about it.

It was almost as if the bear was judging him. He stood there, frozen. His mouth felt dry. He desperately wished he could turn back time. He felt the sting of tears behind his eyes.

He couldn't leave. He wouldn’t leave.

He felt a deep sense of wrongness, as if a piece of his history was being sold off. He had to have it back.

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