regretful - Story 112816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The framed photo on the desk depicted a younger, more carefree version of him. It was a jarring contrast to the man sitting before her now. Chloe felt a tremor run through her.

The room was impeccably clean, and his office had a large window with a beautiful view of the lake. The man who had once reveled in her tears now held a professional air, his expression carefully neutral.

She couldn't bring herself to speak. The past felt so raw, so potent, that every memory was a fresh wound, the pain still sharp. She picked at a loose thread on her jeans.

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