regretful - Story 112926 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Inside the echoing library, surrounded by the silent weight of unread books, Caleb felt dwarfed. He traced his finger along the spine of a worn copy of *Moby Dick*, a story of obsession and loss. He should have attended the funeral. He knew it was expected of him. He regretted not going. Now, he was left with this hollow ache.

He heard a cough behind him, and turned to see a woman struggling to lift a heavy tome. “Need a hand?” he asked, moving towards her.

“Please. Thank you.” Her breath was shallow. "The weight of the world, I suppose." she said, then added, “It's a nuisance, this Alpha-Gal.”

"Tell me about it," Caleb said, his voice flat. He helped her with the book.

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