regretful - Story 112831 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering screen illuminated Amelia’s face as she stared at the bank statement. A lump formed in her throat, making it difficult to swallow. Years. Years she thought they were scraping by, carefully budgeting every penny. While he, Mark, had been quietly amassing a fortune. She ran a hand through her hair, the strands catching in her fingers. The air felt thick, heavy with unspoken accusations.

She slammed the laptop shut, the sound echoing in the silent house. Outside, the rain hammered against the windows, mirroring the pounding in her chest. She pictured their tiny apartment, the chipped paint, the secondhand furniture. Was any of it real? She’d poured her heart and soul into building a life with him, and now... this.

She went to the liquor cabinet, not even bothering to grab a glass. The first swallow burned a path down her throat.

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