regretful - Story 112855 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crumpled napkin, found tucked inside a cookbook, became a physical burden in David's pocket. His sister's handwriting, a playful scrawl, was instantly recognizable. "Bucket List: Go on a road trip. Learn to paint. Adopt a cat."

He choked back a sob. He'd been too busy with work, with life, to really connect. He felt like he'd been given a terrible test, and failed. He had not truly been there for her. He hadn’t really listened.

He drove to the animal shelter the next day, a deep ache in his chest. He would adopt a cat, he decided. He wouldn’t let her dreams die.

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