regretful - Story 112785 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing popped up on her feed: 12 Willow Creek Lane. The house where she’d grown up. The house where she’d dreamed of escaping. Now, she felt a profound loss. Anna stared at the perfectly manicured lawn, the updated kitchen. It was unrecognizable.

She paced the length of her tiny apartment. She needed to see it, to drive by at least. But she was afraid. Afraid of what she might find. Afraid of what she might feel.

She grabbed her coat and walked toward the door. The keys felt heavy in her hand. She turned the lock and stepped out into the night, the image of the house seared into her mind.

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