regretful - Story 112469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice was barely above a whisper. "But the quilt… you made it, Mom." It was an heirloom, made of scraps of fabric, each one telling a story of her life. Now, it was up for sale.

Her mother's face remained impassive. The silence in the room was deafening. The vibrant colours of the quilt seemed to dim under her gaze. The family needed the money, and she was doing the right thing.

She wanted to change her mind. She wanted to scream. She wanted the time back, but it was already too late.

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