regretful - Story 112783 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The “For Sale” sign outside the house on Maple Drive had always seemed so permanent in Amelia’s memory. Now, it was just a picture online, easily dismantled. She’d seen it this morning. The sight had made her drop her phone. She picked it up, and the screen shattered, mirroring the state of her spirit.

She was surprised she felt so empty. She’d spent years telling herself she was better off without the memories the house contained, without the people who’d lived there. Now, the absence felt more like an amputation.

She poured herself a glass of wine, then another. The wine offered no comfort. She wanted to scream. She wanted to run. She wanted to…go back.

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