regretful - Story 112470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the dusty, ornate pocket watch, its delicate hands frozen at 2:17. His grandfather’s legacy, now destined for a stranger's pocket. It had been the only gift he'd ever asked for.

He felt a coldness spread through his chest. He wound the watch, the faint ticking a painful reminder of the passage of time, of what was, and what would never be again. He imagined his grandfather's knowing smile.

He couldn't meet his daughter’s eyes. He wasn't sure if he could bring himself to do it.

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