regretful - Story 112799 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of bleach and disinfectant filled the air, a futile attempt to erase the past. Emily scrubbed furiously at the bathroom tiles, her movements frantic. She couldn't shake the detective's words: "Drowned. Right here, in the bathtub." The pristine surfaces felt menacing, the sterile environment a mockery of cleanliness.

She had wanted a fresh start, a sanctuary from her troubled life. She should have done her research, investigated the history of this place. Now, the house felt like a constant reminder of her own poor judgment. The solitude she craved felt like a cage.

She was utterly defeated.

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