regretful - Story 112366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The postmark was from out of state, the handwriting unfamiliar. Liam unfolded the card. A child's drawing adorned the front. He blinked, his throat suddenly tight. He looked at the picture over and over.

He went to the mirror, and looked at himself. He saw a stranger, a version of himself he no longer recognized. He ran a hand over his face. The lines around his eyes seemed deeper than usual.

He needed to breathe. He needed to get away. He should have done things differently. He should have been there. He had to leave.

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