regretful - Story 112904 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's just… a building," John muttered to himself, trying to sound nonchalant as he surveyed the campus he had once loved. But the words felt hollow, like a dropped plate shattering on the floor. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous habit he'd developed during stressful times. He thought of the graduation party he wouldn't be attending, the friendships now severed by distance and circumstance. The vibrant memories of his first year suddenly seemed like a faded photograph.

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