regretful - Story 112736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled the air, a familiar scent from happier days, now laced with an unexpected bitterness. Amelia stared at the batch cooling on the rack, a half-formed apology in each perfectly round cookie. She should have made more effort, should have been a better friend. She could feel the sting behind her eyes, the tightening of her chest.

She had let the space between them grow, allowing the demands of their lives to come between them. She’d always assumed that their friendship would endure, no matter the distance. She should have known better.

A car door slammed outside. Emily was ready. Amelia grabbed a plate and filled it with cookies, her hand shaking slightly.

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