regretful - Story 112467 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old, chipped ceramic doll stood on the mantelpiece, its painted eyes seeming to follow her every move. It had been her great-grandmother's, a silent guardian of childhood memories. Now, after the car accident, the bills were mounting.

She'd meticulously cleaned the doll, brushing its porcelain skin, re-tying its faded ribbons. Each act only seemed to intensify the ache in her heart. She couldn't bring herself to look at it now.

Her brother had taken it down and put it in a box to be sold.

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