regretful - Story 112419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It wasn't right," Fiona whispered, her voice barely audible. She sat alone in her apartment, the silence amplifying the guilt that gnawed at her. She knew she should have turned it in.

She went shopping, but nothing she saw appealed to her. Every luxury item felt tainted. The thought of spending the money on herself made her feel ill.

She ended up staring at the money, a physical representation of her moral failing. A wave of exhaustion washed over her. She felt dirty, tainted, as though her soul had been sullied.

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