regretful - Story 112466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you sure about this, Liam?” his sister had asked, her voice soft. He’d ignored her. Now, the old leather-bound journal, his grandmother's, lay open on the table, awaiting the appraiser's inspection. Her neat handwriting, filled with family secrets and heartfelt observations, stared back at him.

He could feel the pressure in his head, a dull ache that seemed to worsen with each passing minute. The appraiser began to make notes. He excused himself and went outside for some air. The sky felt too vast.

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