regretful - Story 112639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was stifling, the air thick with the scent of mothballs and time. Sarah held the letter, addressed to her deceased son, in her trembling hands. It was a letter of apology, for the mistakes she had made, for the words left unsaid.

A sob escaped her, and a shiver ran through her body as she read the heartfelt phrases. The ink blurred as her tears fell. She had wanted to protect him and, somehow, she had failed.

She pressed the letter to her chest, feeling the sharp, agonizing sting of pain. The paper felt thin, offering no comfort. The space in her life would always be empty.

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