regretful - Story 112367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was tucked between a credit card offer and a coupon for pizza. Maria almost threw it away before something made her pause. She saw a familiar handwriting. Her stomach lurched.

She retreated to the kitchen, seeking the comfort of routine. She made a cup of tea, the clinking of the ceramic cup against the saucer a small comfort. She hadn’t spoken to them in months. Each passing moment felt like a punishment.

She walked to the window and stared at the empty street. She remembered the day she had said the meanest things to them. The day she had ruined everything.

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