regretful - Story 112887 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of china and the hushed tones of the cocktail party next door grated on Eleanor's nerves. She had always regarded the Johnsons, with their plain clothes and quiet demeanor, as somehow beneath her. She'd always assumed they were struggling, not worth getting to know.

Her cheeks burned. She had dismissed their quiet existence as indicative of a life devoid of value. Their mansion, with its manicured lawns and glittering lights, was now a constant reminder of her own short-sightedness.

She hated the lavish display, and she hated herself for it.

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