regretful - Story 112360 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was stifling, the air thick with dust motes dancing in the shaft of sunlight. The homeowner, Ben, brushed away cobwebs to examine a collection of paintings. They were amateurish, but full of heart. Landscapes, portraits of family members. He found a self-portrait, a young man with a hopeful gaze. He felt a sting in his eyes. He had become so cynical, so jaded. The energy of his youth, the dreams he had, they had all faded. He should have held on to them.

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