regretful - Story 112541 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glowing screen reflected Sarah's face, making her look gaunt and tired. She scrolled through the hidden profile, each post a fresh stab of dismay. Her daughter, Emily, the shy girl who mumbled greetings and kept her head down, was a vibrant, confident personality online. Sarah felt a twisting in her stomach, a heavy weight pressing on her chest.

She closed the laptop with a snap, the sound echoing in the silent house. Emily would be home from school any minute. She pictured Emily's face, the slight flush of her cheeks, the way she tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear. How could she have missed this?

The silence felt thick, suffocating. Sarah walked to the kitchen, poured herself a glass of water, and stared out the window. The setting sun cast long shadows across the lawn. A chill settled in the air, mirroring the coldness that had crept into her heart.

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