regretful - Story 112448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of burnt popcorn filled the air, a stark contrast to the hollow feeling settling in Leo's stomach. His roommate, Sam, had been unusually chatty, making small talk about the weather and their classes. Leo knew it was a distraction. His journal had been moved, its spine now cracked slightly.

He tried to force down a smile, but it felt wooden and unnatural. The comfortable routine they shared was now fractured. Leo felt a burning sensation in his chest.

The shared space was forever changed, tainted by the violation of his privacy. He felt a deep sense of loss.

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