regretful - Story 112794 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new wallpaper in Amelia’s bedroom seemed to suffocate her. The floral pattern, once a symbol of renewal, now felt like a shroud. She traced the delicate petals with a trembling finger, remembering the detective's grim summary: “Stabbed. Right here, in this room.”

She couldn't bring herself to unpack her clothes. The closet door remained closed, a dark portal to an unknown past. Every creak of the floorboards sent a jolt of fear through her. She had been so thrilled to find the house, so eager to make it her own.

The house, once a beacon of hope, now felt like a burden.

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