regretful - Story 112789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam saw the listing as he scrolled through real estate websites. The house on Ash Street, his sanctuary. His safe place. Now, it was just a collection of pixels, a memory fading into the digital ether. He felt a knot tighten in his stomach.

He found himself wandering the halls of his current apartment, unable to settle. He picked up a photo album, the edges worn from years of use. He flipped through the pages, each picture a fresh stab.

He should have said goodbye. He should have made peace. Now, the finality of it all was overwhelming. He wanted to rewind the clock.

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