regretful - Story 112465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, faded and creased, showed her grandfather proudly holding his prized fishing rod. He’d taught her everything she knew about the sport, spending countless hours by the lake. Now, the rod was to be sold, a pawn in a financial game she hated.

He felt a tightness in his throat, a constant knot that wouldn't loosen. He'd argued with his brother, but it had been a fruitless exchange. "Sentimentality doesn't pay the bills," his brother had snapped.

He looked at the picture one more time, the image of his grandfather’s smile. He was going to miss him, all over again.

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