regretful - Story 112917 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The breeze rustled through the vacant space, carrying with it a scent of sawdust and decay. Her neighbor had promised to replace the elm with a flowering dogwood, something small and manageable. She had nodded, unable to meet his eyes. Now, the air felt strangely still, the light too bright.

She sat on the porch swing, its rhythm a discordant echo. The silence, once a comfort, now felt heavy, weighted with her silence. She'd let him convince her, and now she felt as if she'd lost something vital.

Why hadn't she spoken up?

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