regretful - Story 112348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air smelled of cut grass and forgotten dreams. Sarah spotted the bear immediately. It was a faded, patched version of the bear she had when she was little. It was now sitting on a table next to a box of old VHS tapes. It was the same bear she'd thrown away after a bad breakup.

She remembered the anger, the hurt, the feeling of wanting to erase the past. Now, looking at the bear, a different emotion washed over her. It wasn't just sadness, but a feeling of intense, internal discomfort.

The yard sale owner approached, smiling. Sarah felt her throat constrict. She wanted to scream at herself, at the younger version of herself, for making such a foolish decision.

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