regretful - Story 112784 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at 3:00 AM. “Your childhood home is now under contract.” David reread the email. He stared at the ceiling, unable to comprehend the message. The house on Oak Street. Gone. He felt like he’d been punched in the gut.

He went to the window, watching the city lights blur through a film of unshed tears. He'd been so busy building a life, a career, a new family. He’d forgotten to look back. Forgotten to appreciate what he had.

He wanted to scream but instead, he walked to the bathroom, staring at his reflection. A ghost stared 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