regretful - Story 112798 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“What do you think of the new paint color, honey?” Michael asked, his voice strained. He stood in the living room, trying to force a smile. He knew his wife, Jessica, would be horrified when she learned the house’s history. “Strangled… in that very chair.” The detective's voice echoed in his mind.

He knew she wouldn't forgive him. He had rushed into the purchase, eager to please her. The plush furniture, the elegant decor – all of it suddenly felt tainted. He watched Jessica's face for any sign of her knowing.

He felt a deep chill settling within him.

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