regretful - Story 112549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glow of the screen reflected off of her tears. She'd been so busy with work, so consumed with her own problems. She felt a deep, twisting sensation in her gut as she scrolled through the hidden profile. The online life of her son, Sam, was a universe she knew nothing about.

She walked to the window, the familiar view of the neighborhood now seemed foreign. The world outside felt so vibrant and real, a stark contrast to the digital reality she had just discovered. The silence of the house pressed in on her, amplifying the ache in her heart.

She should have known.

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