regretful - Story 112353 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic’s wooden floorboards groaned under her weight as Emily pushed aside a stack of dusty portraits. She paused, captivated by a painting of a young woman with laughing eyes. The woman was holding a small, silver locket. A flash of empathy ran through her as she recognized the same loneliness that she had felt in her own life. A bitter taste settled on her tongue. Emily had been so focused on her own ambition, her own career, that she'd failed to connect with anyone on a deeper level. Now, looking at the painting, she saw a reflection of her own missed chances.

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