regretful - Story 112486 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the peeling wallpaper through the broken window, trying to imagine his mother, still alive, sweeping the kitchen floor. He had promised to call every week. He didn't. He had promised to visit. He didn't. The sun glinted off the shattered glass, creating an array of tiny, shimmering suns. Each shard felt like a pinprick, a reminder of every promise broken, every opportunity squandered. A sharp pain blossomed in his chest.

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