regretful - Story 112370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was a vintage design, the colours faded, the paper brittle. The sender was unknown. The sentiment, though simple, was a punch to the gut for Michael. He felt the familiar weight pressing down on his chest.

He went outside. The world was a symphony of sounds. He should have gone for a walk sooner. He should have kept in touch. The sun felt too bright, the air too thin.

He needed to fix it. He needed to undo what he had done. He didn't think he could.

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