regretful - Story 112438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline screamed, “The Monarch’s Maple Syrup: A Breakfast Staple!” She knew, instantly. She’d shared the recipe with a friendly farmer at the local market, hoping to help him. Now, his business had exploded, the recipe replicated on a massive scale. She felt a knot tighten in her throat.

She sat in the garden, amongst her herbs and vegetables. The sunlight, once a source of joy, felt harsh today. She ran her fingers across the soil, searching for a sense of grounding, a connection to the earth.

She wished she hadn't been so generous. The knowledge lingered. She closed her eyes, seeking refuge in the gentle breeze.

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