regretful - Story 112545 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The brightly lit screen illuminated Jessica’s face, highlighting the deep lines of worry etched around her eyes. She felt a profound sting as she continued scrolling. Her son, Ben, the quiet boy who seemed so easygoing, was struggling. The world of online comments seemed a foreign land, and the emotions Ben was sharing were a stark contrast to his normal demeanor.

Jessica slumped back in her chair, the hard wood digging into her spine. She'd been so sure she knew him. Now, she felt like she was standing on the edge of a cliff, peering into a dark abyss. She got up and walked to the front door, pacing back and forth, unable to settle.

The emptiness of the house pressed in on her. She felt a terrible ache, a throbbing in her temples that wouldn't subside.

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