regretful - Story 112795 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the grand foyer was deafening, broken only by the tick of the grandfather clock. Mark adjusted his tie, the silk fabric feeling suffocating against his skin. He gazed at the ornate chandelier, its crystal prisms reflecting an unsettling emptiness. The detective's assessment played over and over in his mind: "Shot. In the library."

He had poured his heart and soul into restoring the house to its former glory. He’d meticulously researched every detail, seeking a connection to the past. He should have asked about its darker secrets, too. He felt the weight of his ignorance pressing down on him.

He was desperate to sell, to be rid of the house.

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