regretful - Story 112875 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the abandoned warehouse echoed around Thomas. His mural, a sprawling homage to his childhood memories, now served as the backdrop for a pop-up rave. Empty beer cans and cigarette butts littered the floor, marring the vibrant colors he’d painstakingly applied. He ran a hand through his hair, a knot of unease tightening in his stomach. He’d thought it was safe, hidden away. He had made a mistake. He felt a deep sense of loss, as if he'd lost a close friend.

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