regretful - Story 112830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report was playing on the television as she walked into her apartment. She stopped, frozen, as the familiar images flashed across the screen. The project, the idea, the very concept she had devoted herself to. All of it. Stolen.

The room tilted. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes. Her hands shook, and she struggled to maintain composure. How? How was this possible?

She collapsed onto the couch, her carefully built world crumbling around her. She'd been so close. Now, it was gone. She buried her face in her hands, wishing it was all a bad dream.

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