regretful - Story 112690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Grandpa, can you help me with the soldering iron?" Sarah, his granddaughter, asked, holding up a circuit board. John forced a smile, his hands feeling clumsy. He'd built robots and electronic gadgets for years, his workshop his sanctuary. But the spark had faded, leaving behind only the ghosts of his former self. He now looked at her, his granddaughter, feeling the emptiness of what he'd left behind, and the joy of what she was building in its place. He’d failed to sustain the passion, but she was different. He knew it.

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