regretful - Story 112919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her throat tightened as she saw him, her neighbor, using the freshly cut branches for a bonfire. They crackled and popped, sending sparks into the evening sky. It was a beautiful night, but it was ruined for her. The old cedar, her privacy screen, gone.

She stood at the edge of her property, a cold feeling creeping into her bones. She had been so afraid of conflict, so desperate to keep the peace. Now, the peace felt like a loss.

She turned away, hiding the tears that threatened to fall. She should have said something, anything.

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