regretful - Story 112791 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique floorboards groaned under Elias's weight as he paced the living room. Sunlight, filtered through the newly installed blinds, cast long shadows that seemed to mock his every step. He’d spent a fortune on this renovation, transforming the tired Victorian into his dream home. Now, the glossy paint and plush carpets felt like a gilded cage. He remembered the realtor’s eager smile, the promises of a fresh start. He should have asked more questions.

He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. The detective’s words echoed in his mind, crisp and chilling: “Murder. Right here. The master bedroom.” He hadn't slept properly since. He picked up a framed photograph of his late wife, her laughter a distant echo in the silent house. It felt wrong, that smile, in this place.

He should have walked away.

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