regretful - Story 112602 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the photo album shut, the sound echoing in his small apartment. The photograph glared up at him from the table. His father, the stoic, humorless man he’d always known, was caught mid-laugh, head thrown back, arm around a woman with a mischievous glint in her eyes. It was a side of his father he’d never seen, never been allowed to see.

He ran a hand through his hair, the action frantic. He'd spent his life trying to live up to the image of his father – the strong, silent type. Now, the carefully constructed facade seemed to crumble around him.

The weight in his stomach intensified. He hadn't asked. He hadn't listened. He had followed a path built on half-truths and unspoken words. Why hadn't he seen the signs? Why had he been so blind?

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