regretful - Story 112414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wallet was heavy in Clara's purse. She kept replaying the scene in her head: the frantic woman dropping it, the way the breeze caught the papers as they scattered. She knew what she *should* have done.

She'd promised her son a new bike. She justified the purchase in her head, telling herself she'd found the money. She found the bike, but he seemed to know something was wrong. His smile seemed… strained.

Later, she found herself staring at the bike. The metal glinted in the sunlight, a constant, ugly reminder. She couldn't even bring herself to use it.

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