regretful - Story 112484 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the car window, Sarah watched the bulldozer lumber towards the house, its metal teeth glinting in the morning sun. Her breath hitched. Inside, the walls held the ghosts of laughter, of scraped knees, of whispered secrets. She hadn't even bothered to take pictures, to document the memories she now desperately craved. She was late, again. Late for everything. A single tear traced a path down her cheek, leaving a clean streak on the grime-covered glass.

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