regretful - Story 112439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the menu, the words practically leaping out at him: "Aunt Millie's Amazing Meatloaf." It was *his* meatloaf recipe. The one he had tweaked and perfected over the years. The one he’d shared with his sister-in-law, for her family restaurant. A deep frown creased his face.

He picked at his dinner, the food tasting bland and uninspired. He remembered the feeling of accomplishment. Now, it was gone.

He pushed his plate away, his appetite lost. He was, somehow, diminished. He felt a profound sense of loss, a yearning for something he couldn't quite name.

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