regretful - Story 112608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was a tomb of forgotten memories. He flipped through the photographs, each one a whisper of a life he thought he knew. Then he found it. The photo of his father, looking relaxed and happy, surrounded by people who were strangers to him. The stories, the narratives, didn’t include these people.

He felt the sting of tears. He had always tried to live up to the expectations. He had believed in the image, the version of events he was given.

A deep sense of disappointment settled in his heart. Why hadn't he been more curious? Why hadn't he investigated the gaps, the silences? His father, in the photo, held a secret. He held many, it seemed.

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