regretful - Story 112670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The emergency alarm beeped irregularly, the only break in the oppressive silence. David, slumped against the wall, felt his gut twist. Across from him, Sarah stared out blankly. He'd been distant, avoiding her after a heated disagreement. He'd let his pride get in the way. Now, trapped in the mechanical box, he wrestled with the repercussions.

“I… I’m sorry,” he finally managed, his voice barely a whisper. She said nothing.

He replayed the conversation, the harsh words, the slammed doors. The missed chance to apologize. He should have been more understanding. He had been a fool.

The cold, hard metal pressed in around them, a suffocating embodiment of his choices.

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