regretful - Story 112809 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a stiff, formal email. His father's other life was now his concern. Sam stared at the cold text, his carefully constructed composure cracking. He felt a deep, pervasive disappointment.

He kept thinking of all the times he'd wished for a brother. Now, he had a sister, but the knowledge felt more like a burden than a blessing. He felt a strange sort of grief.

The apartment suddenly felt too small, the air thick with unspoken words. He rose and started pacing the floor. He needed to get away, to clear his head, but where could he possibly go to find peace?

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