regretful - Story 112489 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence was the worst part, now. Once, the house had been filled with noise, with the shouts of children and the murmur of conversation. Now, only the rhythmic creak of the gate broke the stillness. He remembered the arguments, the slamming doors, the teenage angst that had driven him away. Now, he wished he could hear those shouts, even the angry ones, just one more time. He was left with an empty shell, and a heart full of echoes.

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