regretful - Story 112874 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in her inbox, unopened, a digital weight. Then the news. Her intricate ink drawings, meant only for her personal journal, were featured on a popular fashion blog. She felt a cold dread spread through her. The carefully crafted details, born from years of self-reflection, were now public property. She’d been so naive. She’d trusted the "friend." She closed her eyes, imagining the comments, the critiques, the dissecting gaze of strangers. The vibrant colors of the artwork now seemed to pulse with a mocking energy.

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