regretful - Story 112748 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence felt heavier than usual. It hung in the air, thick and oppressive, as Emily looked at the fallen maple. Her stomach churned. It was the same tree she had been admiring all summer. Its leaves had turned a vibrant shade of crimson. It had looked beautiful, but she knew the tree was old. She’d seen the way its branches were becoming brittle. She hadn’t said anything.

She’d been too busy, too distracted, with her own problems. She'd been consumed by work and personal issues and had told herself that it wasn't her business.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the sight of the damage. The sun felt unusually hot on her skin.

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