regretful - Story 112605 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt cavernous now, echoing with the absence of her mother. Sarah clutched the photograph tighter. A carefree portrait of her mother, taken during her youth. The woman in the picture was radiant, full of life, something the Sarah always thought she had lost in the later years.

A pressure built behind her eyes, making it difficult to breathe. She had believed her mother’s stories, embraced the carefully crafted narrative of a happy, uneventful life. It felt like a deception now.

Why hadn't she challenged the stories? Why hadn't she looked beyond the carefully constructed walls of their home? The woman in the picture, and the life Sarah had never known, were a world away.

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